Two-year-old girl dies after being crushed by truck in Al Ain

Al Ain: A two-year-old girl was crushed under the tyres of a truck while playing outside her house in Al Ain on Thursday night, Gulf News has learnt.

The police said the two-year-old Pakistani girl N.M.H, was run over while she was playing outside her home in the Al Sarooj district. The driver, M.R.D, also a Pakistani, was reversing the truck at around 10pm.

He did not notice the girl. The girl sustained severe injures and died on the spot. The driver, on realising the situation, fled the scene. The police later moved the girl's body to Al Ain Hospital's morgue.

The investigation unit of Al Ain Traffic Police Department arrested the driver within 24 hours and lodged a case against him. Talking to Gulf News, Hashim Khan, the dead girl's father said it was an horrific time for the family.

"We will carry the scar of the death of our beloved child for the rest of our life," he said.

Khan said he had been making arrangement to transport his daughter's body to his native city in Pakistan.

Accident

In another accident a young Egyptian woman died and her companion sustained serious injuries when their car overturned in the Al Dahera district on the Al Ain-Al Wagan Highway on Friday.

The police said the accident occurred at around 3pm when one of the car's tyres burst. The driver lost control and the car veered off the road and then flipped over.

A police rescue team from the Emergency and Public Safety Section reached the spot and recovered the woman's body. The deceased was reportedly a teacher in a government school.

Meanwhile, a 37-year-old Indian reportedly drank insecticide in an apparent suicide attempt on Friday. The incident occurred at a farm and the police moved the man to Al Ain Hospital. He is in a serious condition.

The police have registered a case and further investigations are ongoing.

Tragic look back
Children killed in recent accidents

• April 24, 2008
  Four-year-old Aathish, a student of KG-1 in Abu Dhabi, died in a school bus after he had apparently suffocated.
• April 13, 2008
  A nine-year-old Emirati boy died and five other family members sustained serious injuries when a heavy vehicle rammed into their car on Al Rams road in Ras Al Khaimah.
• April 7, 2008
  M.K., a two-year-old Emirati killed in the Al Foah district in Al Ain. The child was playing in front of his home when a speeding car knocked him down.
• April 6, 2008
  A negligent school bus driver crushed to death W.A.G, a three-year-old kindergarten student, when the child stumbled and fell in Al Ain.
• March 6, 2008
  Five people were killed, including two children, in accidents. One man and two children were killed on the spot when a speeding vehicle hit another car which rammed against a palm tree in Abu Dhabi.
• March 2, 2008
  A school bus ran over a five-year-old girl moments after she had got off the vehicle, killing her on the spot. Yasmin Ramadan from Egypt was returning from her evening classes in Garhoud, Dubai.
• February 14, 2008
  Two schoolgirls died after being run over by a car after getting off a school bus in Ras Al Khaimah.
• December 22, 2007
  Police are investigating the cause of an accident involving a bus load of returning Haj pilgrims, which left one 12-year-old Emirati boy dead and 37 injured, three of them seriously in Abu Dhabi.
• July 10, 2007
  A four-year-old girl died after she was run over by the school bus which brought her home from school in the Al Riffa area, Khor Fakkan.
• May 14, 2007
  A 10 year-old boy was hit by a car and died in the school's parking lot in Sharjah.
• May 13, 2007
  A 10-year-old schoolboy sitting on a kerb inside his school was hit and killed by a woman who had come to pick up her daughter in the Al Azra area, Sharjah.
• May 2, 2007
  A Filipina schoolgirl was killed when she was run over by a car inside the school parking area in the Far Eastern Private School in Sharjah.
• February 12, 2007
  An 11-year-old student has regained 75 per cent of her respiratory function and passed a critical stage after being hit by a car as she ran to catch up with her school bus in Umm Al Quwain.
• January 18, 2007
  Eight-year-old Rafay Ali was hit by a car, suffered three fractures.

Source: Gulf News Archive