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Kabbadi player killed in road accident

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IANS Ranchi

National-level kabbadi player Vikesh Kumar Rawat died after being run over by a truck in Jharkhand's Deoghar district on Tuesday.

Rawat died instantly near the Blooming Buds school situated on the Deoghar-Dumka highway. The body was sent for post-mortem.

Expressing grief, kabbadi players in Deoghar said Rawat had to participate in the recruitment of the Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) at Bokaro on Wednesday.

Rawat had represented Jharkhand from junior to senior level in kabbadi games from 2011 to 2014.

--IANS

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First Published: Feb 12 2019 | 2:40 PM IST

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