9-year-old crushed to death

Vivek Uike, 9, who was playing by the roadside, died after being crushed by a truck at Satrapur village on Bhokhara-Koradi Naka Road on

Wednesday afternoon.

The boy, who was scampering across the road, was hit by the speeding vehicle.

The driver fled the spot without attending to the profusely bleeding boy.

The children, playing with Vivek, raised an alarm and soon the boy's parents him rushed to the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital where he was declared dead after around six hours of battling with life.

Koradi police have registered a case of rash driving and culpable homicide, and are searching for the driver and his vehicle.