New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- In a tragic incident, a former Goa MLA died on Saturday minutes after he was allegedly assaulted by an auto driver in Belagavi district of Karnataka.

According to the police, Congress leader Lavoo Mamlatdar, 68, collapsed in a hotel and died minutes after an auto driver assaulted him following an argument over an accident in Belagavi.

Mamlatdar was on a business trip to the Karnataka city.

Before joining politics in 2012, Mamlatdar was a deputy superintendent of police-rank officer in Goa.

Mamlatdar and an auto driver got into an argument following an accident. During the altercation, the autodriver hit him multiple times, a Karnataka police official said citing CCTV footage procured from the spot, as per a PTI r...