Toddler crushed by speeding dumper

A speeding dumper truck mowed down a toddler and injured his uncle in Malir's Millat Town on Tuesday.

According to Al-Falah police, one-and-a-half-year-old Aun Muhammad was killed on the spot after the dumper, driven against the one-way flow, rammed into a stationary motorcycle carrying the boy and his uncle, Salman. Salman sustained serious injuries.

The FIR, lodged on the complaint of the victim's father, Nadeem Ahmed, invokes charges of murder, negligence, recklessness and speeding. The nominated suspects are the absconding driver, Zahid; the arrested cleaner, Hasnain Shah; and the truck owner, Attaullah.

PS Al-Falah SHO said the arrested cleaner is the son of the dumper's owner. He added that while the driver fled immediately after the crash, the cleaner tried to escape with the vehicle but was intercepted by police. Officers rescued him and the dumper from an angry mob before shifting them to the station.

The victim's grandfather told reporters that Aun had been visiting relatives in Salman Farsi locality. While returning to his grandmother's house with his uncle, their motorcycle was struck by the dumper from the wrong side of the road. "My grandson was crushed under its wheels. He died instantly," he said.