West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has suffered a significant injury in an accident, as announced by the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) on Thursday. Reports indicate that TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee has accompanied her to the SSKM hospital.

According to a hospital official, the 69-year-old politician slipped and struck her head on furniture at her home shortly after returning from an event in South Kolkata’s Ballygunge.

In June of last year, Mamata Banerjee experienced a leg injury when her helicopter had to make an emergency landing at the Sevoke airbase near Siliguri due to adverse weather conditions. She suffered ligament injuries to her left knee joint and left hip joint as a result.

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