New Delhi, January 7: Four powerlifters were killed, and two others, including world champion Saksham Yadav were injured, after their car met with an accident near the Singhu Border in outer Delhi’s Alipur area in the wee hours of Sunday.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the car was travelling at a high speed when it hit a road divider and crashed into pole on the Delhi-Chandigarh highway. The victims were celebrating a birthday party and some alcohol bottles were found inside the car, police said.
DCP (Rohini district) Rajneesh Gupta said the deceased have been identified as Tikamchand alias Tinka (27), Saurabh (18), Yogesh (24), Harish Roy (20).
While the injured identified as Saksham (28), shifted to Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh and Rohit (23) was taken to LNJP Hospital where his condition is stated to out of danger.
