Fatal accident cuts short life of 36-year-old cyclist

A 36-year-old ultra-endurance cyclist and bike-packer from India died in Chile after being run over by a vehicle on Wednesday morning, according to media reports.

- Deepak Lavania

NEW DELHI: Mohit Kohli, who was born in Meerut and raised in Delhi, had embarked on a journey across South America on January 22 to break the world record for the fastest bicycle crossing of South America, from Cartagena in Columbia to Ushuaia in Argentina—a distance of 10,000km.

Son of a prominent businessman, Kohli is survived by his parents and a younger brother, Mudit, who confirmed his death "somewhere in the middle of the desert in Chile."

"Due to the severity of his injuries, he lost his life. The investigation team was requested to analyse and determine the underlying cause of this accident," lieutenant Alexis Gutierrez Corbalan from the Traffic Accident Investigation Section of the Iquique Police was quoted as saying in Chilean media reports.