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Indian foreign minister injured in road accident

07 Apr 2007 18:34:59 GMT
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KOLKATA, India, April 7 (Reuters) - Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee sustained minor injuries on Saturday when his car crashed head-on with a truck in eastern India, police said.

Mukherjee, 71, the number two figure in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, was returning to the eastern city of Kolkata after a meeting in Berhampur town in West Bengal state when the accident happened, they said.

The veteran politician was among three injured in the crash. He suffered minor bruises, including to the head, and had been admitted to a local hospital, Subrata Mitra, a senior district police officer, said by phone.

The accident took place after one of the truck's tyres burst and its driver lost control of the vehicle about 120 km (75 miles) north of Kolkata, Mitra said.

Mukherjee, a senior member of India's ruling Congress party, was shifted to the foreign ministry from the defence ministry in October.

The post had been vacant for nearly a year before that because the previous foreign minister had quit after he was named in an independent report on irregularities in the United Nations' oil-for-food programme for Iraq.

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