Speeding BMC dumper runs over two toddlers

“The girls were declared dead before admission at Sion Hospital. The parents of the children Ishrat and Noor Mohammed are construction workers,and stay near the Mhada Colony.

The two children had accompanied their mother to a grocery shop. Residents blamed a narrow lane encroached by hawkers as a possible reason for the accident. The bodies are now at Sion Hospital for postmortem. The Wadala TT police had to call for additional reinforcement after the locals assaulted the driver after the incident. “Eye-witnesses say the driver was speeding and had applied the brakes after the two kids were run over,” added Suryavanshi.