TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee injured in road accident

October 18, 2016 18:36

Trinamool Congress MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee was seriously injured when his car met with an accident on the Durgapur Expressway in Hooghly district on Tuesday.

"The accident occurred at Ratanpur. He is being shifted to a nursing home in Kolkata," an officer manning the state police control room said.

According to News 18, at the time of the accident, Banerjee was the only person in the car apart from the driver. According to the report, former Congress leader Manas Bhuniya, who recently joined TMC was also accompanying Banerjee on the trip to Murshidabad, but he was not in the same car.

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