A one-and-a-half-year-old boy, have been mowed down by a goods vehicle .
Lakshmikanth, a toddler was killed in front of his house at Kalkere on Thursday morning. His parents were natives of Andhra Pradesh, work as labourers at an under-construction building at Kalkere. The family lives in a makeshift shed on the construction site.
According to KR Puram, traffic police, t he boy was playing in front of the shed when the speeding goods vehicle ran him over, killing him on the spot. The driver dumped the vehicle and fled.