A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable was injured when a vehicle from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s convoy overturned after it suffered a tyre burst at Nandori village Warora tehsil of Chandrapur district in eastern Maharashtra on Thursday evening. However, Bhagwat is “safe”, reports reaching here said.
Bhagwat was returning to Nagpur after his visit to Chandrapur, when the vehicle in his convoy turned turtle.
“The car involved in the mishap was a car that was escorting Bhagwat’s car. Nothing happened to Bhagwat. He returned safely to Nagpur,” a senior police official from Chandrapur said.
The injured CRPF constable, who was one of the occupants in the escort car, was rushed to the nearby Warora rural hospital. Bhagwat waited at the mishap site till the injured CRPF constable was admitted to the local hospital.
While the official sources attributed the accident to a tyre burst, reports quoting eyewitness accounts however said that the mishap took place after the vehicle carrying security personnel hit a vehicle ahead.
Police said the mishap took place at 5 pm along the Warora-Nandori road in Chandrapur district, after one of Bhagwat’s convoy suffered a tyre burst.