Tata Motors' MD Karl Slym passes away in Bangkok

Tata Motors said on Sunday that Managing Director Karl Slym had died in Bangkok after a fall.

FP Archives|Dec 21, 2014, 05:16:12 IST

Mumbai: Tata Motors said on Sunday that Managing Director Karl Slym had died in Bangkok after a fall.

Slym, 51, was in the Thai capital for a Tata Motors Thailand board meeting, a company spokeswoman told Reuters. A post-mortem report was due on Monday, she said, but gave no further details.

[caption id="attachment_1360077" align="alignright" width="380"] Karl Slym. Reuters[/caption]

"The company shares in the grief of Karl Slym's wife and family at their irreparable loss," the company said in a statement. Slym had worked for Tata since October 2012.

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