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CS Santosh to be flown back to India following Dakar crash

Rally rider CS Santosh will be flown back to India in the next couple of days after he suffered a crash during Stage 4 of the Dakar Rally and was airlifted to a Riyadh hospital last Wednesday. The 37-year-old Indian sustained head trauma and a dislocated right shoulder and has been kept in a medically induced coma to manage the injury and keep bodily functions to a minimum. The first Indian to complete a Dakar Rally, Santosh was being treated at the Saudi German hospital in Riyadh.

"Based on scans and assessments, Santosh is stable and continues to be under observation.