MOLDOVAN President, Igor Dodon has been injured in traffic accident north-west of the capital Chisinau.
Local media say the crash happened when an oncoming lorry overtook a vehicle and crashed into the presidential convoy near the town of Straseni.
According to BBC, one of the cars in the convoy overturned. President Dodon was taken to the hospital.
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He is said to have suffered only light injuries, but local media reports say his mother is in a serious condition.
The 43-year-old has led the former Soviet Republic since December 2016.
Pictures posted on social media after Sunday’s accident show the wreckage of a car by the side of the road.
The accident comes just hours after Gennady Gagulia, the prime minister of Abkhazia, a Russian-backed republic that broke away from Georgia in the 1990s, died in a car crash.
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