Mandla (MP), March 14 A two-and-a-half-year-old girl died after being hit by a speeding truck while she was walking with her mother in Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh, police said on Saturday.
Heartbreaking scenes unfolded after the accident on Friday, as the distraught mother was seen collecting the toddler's remains from the road and placing them in a plastic bag, they said.
The accident occurred in the afternoon at Bamhauri village, under the Kotwali police station, about 20 km from the district headquarters, Kotwali police station in-charge Shafeeq Khan said.
Srishti Yadav, an anganwadi helper, was walking home carrying one child in her arms and holding the hand of her daughter Aakriti, when a speeding truck hit the girl, crushing her, he said.
The impact was so severe that the child's body became lodged on the road, and blood splattered on the exterior of a school located on the roadside, he said.
The official said that truck driver Panchulal Yadav, a resident of the neighboring Seoni district, tried to flee after the accident, but villagers chased him for about 7 km before catching him and handing him over to the police, Khan said.