India, May 17 -- An eight-year-old girl died after a concrete mixer truck ran over her in Sakinaka on Friday evening. The accident occurred when the girl, Ahana Shaikh, and her father, Mohammad Rafi Tajuddin Shaikh, were returning home on a bike from a relative's place, according to the police.

Ahana and Rafi, residents of Powai, were travelling on a bike near Khanna Estate in Sakinaka around 6pm on Friday when a concrete mixer truck, driving parallel to them, suddenly swerved left and hit their bike from the side, causing both to fall on the road. "The truck's rear tyre ran over the girl's head," said a police officer from Saki Naka police station, adding that Rafi escaped with minor injuries.

Local residents caught the truck driver an...