Tiny tot run over outside home

A one-and-a-half-year-old child, who was playing outside his makeshift home in Vaddarapalya in eastern Bengaluru, was killed when a goods vehicle ran him over on Wednesday morning, the Banaswadi traffic police said.

Bajrangi, son of Shivakumar, a construction labourer from Jharkhand, was playing outside the shed where his family was put up.

Around 9.30 am, the driver of a goods vehicle failed to notice the boy and drove it over him. The child’s parents were working at an under-construction building nearby. They rushed to the spot after hearing his cries and took him to hospital but it was too late, police said. Shivakumar’s colleagues caught the driver as he tried to flee and turned him over to the police.

16-yr-old biker killed
A class 10 student died when his motorcycle collided with a tanker at Papaiah Reddy Layout in southern Bengaluru on Wednesday.

Santhosh, a class 10 student at Christ High school, was riding back home when he is said to have lost control over his motorcycle as he saw the tanker coming in the opposite direction around 2.30 pm. As the two-wheeler collided with the tanker, Santhosh fell to the ground and came under the heavy vehicle. The jurisdictional Madiwala traffic police said the deceased was speeding and wasn’t wearing a helmet. His father, Basavaraj, is a bus conductor with the BMTC. Santhosh was returning home after taking the pre-boards exams. The driver abandoned the tanker and fled. Police seized the tanker and are searching for the driver.