Narendra Modi leads tributes to ‘Flying Sikh’, who won India’s first Commonwealth gold in 1958

Milkha Singh, one of India’s first sport superstars, has died of Covid-related complications at the age of 91.

Singh, who was popularly known as the Flying Sikh, died late on Friday in a hospital in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, his family said.

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