World's oldest marathon runner dies aged 114 in road accident


NEW DELHI, India (AFP): India's Fauja Singh, believed to be the world's oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident aged 114, his biographer said on Tuesday (July 15).

Singh, an Indian-born British national, nicknamed the "Turbaned Tornado", died after being hit by a vehicle in Punjab state's Jalandhar district on Monday.

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