CHENNAI: A 13-year-old boy, who was on his way to a cricket ground at Tiruvottriyur, was killed after being knocked down by a lorry on Saturday. Police said B Karthikeyan, a resident of Poongavanapuram at Thiruvottriyur, was studying class 8 in a government school nearby.
He was going to an adjoining cricket ground around 4 pm when a container lorry ran over him on the Ennore Express High Road. Passers-by rushed the boy to the Stanley Government Hospital. Meanwhile, some people, in a fit of anger, pelted stones at the lorry.
The driver fled the scene, said the police. The Washermenpet Traffic Investigation Wing registered a case and launched a hunt for the driver.