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Cyrus Mistry, ex-chairman of Tata Sons, dies in road accident near Mumbai

Untimely demise of Cyrus Mistry shocking; he was promising business leader who believed in India's economic prowess, tweets PM Modi

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Agencies New Delhi
Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was on Sunday killed in a road accident after his car hit a divider in Maharashtra's Palghar district neighbouring Mumbai, a senior police officer said.

He was 54.

Mistry was travelling from Ahmedabad to Mumbai in a Mercedes car, he said.

“The accident took place around 3.15 pm, when Mistry was travelling to Mumbai from Ahmedabad. The accident took place on a bridge over the Surya river. It seems an accident,” said Palghar district superintendent of police, Balasaheb Patil. An external spokesman for the Mistry family’s Shapoorji Pallonji Group confirmed news of Mistry’s death.

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