SIKKIM-RAJASTHAN AUTO RUN
Six foreign participants of Rickshaw Autumn Run injured

FROM IBNLIVE.COM

Bhagalpur (Bihar), Sept 14 (PTI) Six foreign participants of the Gangtok to Jaisalmer ‘Rickshaw Autumn Run, 2010′ were injured in a collision between two auto rickshaws near Kharik in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district today. Official sources said the collision took place when one of the autorickshaws carrying some of the tourists stopped after being grazed by a speeding truck and the other came up and hit it. The injured were admitted to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical hospital at Bhagalpur for treatment, the sources said. The 3500 km-long Rickshaw Autumn Run had been flagged off from the Sikkim capital yesterday. The run has been organised by UK-based ‘The Adventurists’ and a total 71 teams comprising of 175 members from more than 20 countries were participating in it.