World's 'oldest' marathon runner dies at 114 in hit-and-run

National desk:

Fauja Singh, a British-Indian man believed to be the world's oldest marathon runner, has died after being hit by a car in India at the age of 114.Police say Singh was crossing a road in the village where he was born in Punjab when an unidentified vehicle hit him. Locals took him to hospital, where he died.Singh, a global icon, set records by running marathons across multiple age categories, including when he was over 100. He began running at 89 and ran nine full marathons between 2000 and 2013, when he retired.The hit and run happened on Monday as the centenarian was walking in his birth village, Beas Pind, near Jalandhar."A search is under way, and the accused will be caught soon," said Harvinder Singh, a top district police officer.