Child run over by a private school van near Tiruchi

A one-day-half-year-old male child was run over by a private school van at BHEL quarters on the outskirts of Tiruchi and died on Friday morning. Police identified the deceased child as Eric.

The child’s father works at the BHEL plant and his mother in a private college near Tiruchi. Both had left for work in the morning and the child and its elder brother studying first standard in a private school at Kattur were being taken care of by a woman caretaker.

The woman had gone to see off Eric’s brother boarding a private school van that came to pick him up when the child came in front of the vehicle. It came under the wheels and died, when the driver apparently moved the vehicle. The autopsy of the child was done and handed over to the parents. The van driver Satish has been named as the accused. The BHEL police are investigating.