India, July 17 -- AGRA An eight-year-old boy lost his life after being crushed under the wheels of a school bus when he got off the vehicle outside his institution in Raal village of UP's Mathura on Thursday morning, said police.

Nitin Kumar,, a Class 2 student at Tilak Singh Inter College, had reached school in a bus. "The bus of the college had brought in students, including Nitin Kumar, who along with other students got off the bus. The driver was moving the bus backwards to park it when Nitin, came under the wheel and died," said SSP (Mathura) Shlok Kumar.

The boy died on the spot and the bus driver fled the scene, he added.

The incident triggered protests by angry villagers, who gathered at the school, raised slogans against the m...