12-year-old crushed to death by Sharif's motorcade in Pak

A 12-year-old boy was on Friday crushed to death by a speeding vehicle which was part of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's 'homecoming' motorcade in Pakistan's Punjab province. Sharif's convoy left from Jelhlum to Lahore where the incident took place at Lala Musa, some 225-km from Lahore.

The boy, named Hamid and a resident of Lala Musa, was among a crowd of supporters gathered to greet Sharif. "Hamid was standing on the road side when an elite squad vehicle of Nawaz convoy hit him and sped away. We rushed to rescue the boy but he died on the spot," Nadim, an eyewitness told reporters. He said his father fainted seeing the crushed body of his son. "We shifted Hamid's father to a nearby hospital where the doctors said he suffered a cardiac arrest," an eyewitness said.