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Child (8) run over by tractor-trailer in Tyrol

The boy (8) was run over by the trailer of a tractor.(Bild: zoom.tirol)

Dramatic accident in Tyrol. A boy (8) was run over by the trailer of a tractor when he waved to his friend (11), who was sitting in the passenger seat of the tractor. The child was flown to hospital by helicopter.

In the late afternoon on Thursday, a child (8) was run over by the circle trailer of a tractor. "The child walked past the tractor and then waved to an eleven-year-old who was in the passenger seat of the tractor," the police told the Krone newspaper.

Taken to hospital by rescue helicopter
The child may have seen the trailer and was ultimately run over by it. The injured boy was taken to the hospital in Innsbruck by emergency helicopter.