An eight-year-old boy with autism died after he was run over by a truck in the capital鈥檚 Rampura on Monday morning.
Deceased Mohamamd Araf, 8, son of Md Azharul Islam, was a resident of Banasree.
Witnesses said that a speedy truck hit Araf in front of Farazi Hospital as he was going to school, leaving him critically injured at about 9:00am.
He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the duty doctor announced him dead.
Araf鈥檚 uncle Abu Zafar said that the boy had autism.
At the time of the accident, he had his house help Sonya with him and was going to a local school for special children.
His body was kept in DMCH morgue for autopsy, said the police.