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Former Meghalaya CM’s son dies as car catches fire

| @indiablooms | Oct 03, 2021, at 09:30 pm

Guwahati/IBNS: Former Meghalaya Chief Minister Late E K Mawlong’s youngest son was charred to death when the car he was travelling in caught fire in Meghalaya’s Ri-Bhoi district.

The incident took place on Shillong-Guwahati highway on Saturday.

The deceased person was identified as Ferdinand B Lyngdoh who was the youngest son of the former chief minister and the brother of Congress MLA George Lyngdoh.

A police official of the Ri-Bhoi district said the vehicle suddenly caught fire in the Umran area on the Shillong-Guwahati highway.

Lyngdoh was an assistant professor at a college affiliated with the Imphal-based Central Agriculture University.

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