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

British Sikh centenarian marathon runner, Fauja Singh, aged 104 years, looks on before joining Bollywood actor John Abraham in flagging off the 2016 Mumbai Marathon in Mumbai on January 17, 2016. (Photo by SUJIT JAISWAL / 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 Tuesday.

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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