Four-year-old crushed under metro bus in Rawalpindi

A metro bus crushed a four-year-old child as he was getting off with his mother at Liaquat Bagh metro station in Rawalpindi.

Various footage of the incident has emerged online. In one of them, it can be seen that the body was covered with a sheet, surrounded by people and a bus parked on the side.

Journalist Shabbir Dar posted a video made from inside the bus where the parents of the child were seen shouting and crying in panic while other passengers were trying to console them.

Geo News reported that the four-year-old child fell on the track while getting off the metro bus. He was accompanied by his mother and was crushed under the tyre of the metro bus. The child died on the spot.

The police said that the child who died in the incident at Liaquat Bagh metro bus station was identified as Rehan, a resident of the Amrapura area of Rawalpindi.

The police stated that the child was getting off the bus and holding his mother's finger when the bus stopped at Liaquat Bagh station, and he instantly fell on the metro track.
 
However, at the same time, the bus driver started the bus, and as a result, the child was crushed to death by the big bus tyre.

The driver of the metro bus, as well as the other officials of the metro bus administration, fled the premises immediately after the incident, according to the police.

The incident happened in the jurisdiction of Waris Khan police station of Rawalpindi. A police team reached the accident site and started an investigation.

Previously, in 2017, a 19-year-old student was crushed to death after the bus rammed into a near side pole. Following her death, massive protests broke out in the area by fellow students.