UP: 6-year-old girl crushed under truck as her migrant parents rush to catch bus

AGRA: A truck ran over a girl, 6, while she was hurrying to board a bus with her parents near Etawah-Mainpuri border in Mainpuri’s Kishni area on Tuesday morning. The family had travelled from Gurugram and was going to UP’s Sitapur district.
The accident happened when the family, along with 13 other migrants, was de-boarded from an "unsafe" truck and was asked to sit in a bus on Mainpuri border.
Shiv Kumar, a daily-wage labourer, told TOI over phone that his family and some close relatives started walking from Gurugram on Monday. Later, they got a lift in a truck. On Tuesday morning, they were stopped by police at Etawah-Mainpuri border.
"While we were getting out of the truck with our luggage to catch the bus, another speeding truck loaded with crushed stones mowed down my little daughter, Priyanka", said Kumar, adding that now he is taking his daughter’s body to his village in an ambulance arranged by Mainpuri administration.
Mainpuri’s superintendent of police (SP) Ajay Kumar said that the truck has been confiscated. "The driver fled from the spot. He will be arrested soon," the SP added.
An FIR has been registered under relevant sections of IPC at Kishni police station.
Kumar said he had returned to Gurugram after Holi on March 15. "But, I could not land a work as lockdown was announced soon after that. Our survival depends on our daily income. Each day had become difficult for us in Gurugram so we decided to return to our village in Sitapur. Our excitement to reach home turned into mourning. We lost out daughter," he said, adding that he will never return to Gurugram.