Colombo (News 1st) – A two-year-old child succumbed to injuries after the lorry driven by his father ran over him at Julampitiya, Weeraketiya.

Police stated that the father attempted to move the lorry which had been parked in front of their residence. The child was run over by a back wheel of the lorry. The father has been taken into custody.

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