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| Gopinath Munde: Indian minister dies in car crash | Gopinath Munde: Indian minister dies in car crash |
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| India's Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde has died in a car crash in the capital, Delhi. | India's Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde has died in a car crash in the capital, Delhi. |
| Mr Munde was on his way to the airport to take a flight to his home state of Maharashtra when his car was hit by another vehicle, officials said. | Mr Munde was on his way to the airport to take a flight to his home state of Maharashtra when his car was hit by another vehicle, officials said. |
| Doctors at the AIIMS hospital said when he was brought in, he was not breathing and there was "no cardiac activity". | Doctors at the AIIMS hospital said when he was brought in, he was not breathing and there was "no cardiac activity". |
| Mr Munde, 64, was appointed just last week to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new government. | |
| "An accident took place earlier in the morning, following which he was taken to hospital in Delhi. Doctors declared him dead at about 8am [02:30GMT]," Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari told reporters. | |
| Mr Munde was deputy chief minister in Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999 and elected twice to the lower house of parliament in 2009 and 2014. | |
| Correspondents say India has some of the most dangerous roads in the world - nearly 140,000 people died in road accidents in India in 2012, according to the government's National Crime Records Bureau. |