India, Sept. 8 -- A five-year-old girl died after falling from an auto rickshaw and being run over by a truck near Rajesh Pilot Chowk on Golf Course Extension Road on Sunday, police said on Monday.

The victim, Priyal, a resident of Delhi's Bijwasan, was travelling with her mother, Ragini Devi, in an auto rickshaw towards Sector 65 from Sector 56 when the incident took place at around 4.20pm, police said.

A senior police officer said the auto rickshaw was overloaded and Ragini Devi was holding Priyal. "Due to a jerk clubbed with sudden movement inside the vehicle, Ragini lost her grip, and her daughter slipped out of the moving vehicle and fell on the road," he said.

A speeding truck following the auto then ran over the girl, killing he...