India, April 25 -- A 46-year-old truck driver was killed after an unidentified vehicle knocked him down and fled while he was changing a tyre on the Mumbai-Panvel stretch of Atal Setu on Thursday afternoon.

The victim, Mohammed Naseem Jameel Ahmed Khan, a resident of Chembur, had halted his dumper truck and stepped out to fix a tyre around 2.30pm in the Ulwe police station jurisdiction when the incident took place.

According to police, the speeding vehicle hit Khan while he was replacing the tyre, leaving him with severe injuries to his head, face, abdomen and legs.

"The driver of the unidentified vehicle did not stop after the collision and fled the spot without informing the police or taking the injured to hospital," an officer said....