Fujairah, Oct 19 (Emirates 24x7): A three-and-a-half-year-old Emirati school girl was crushed to death by her own school bus just as she stepped out and hurried to meet her elder sister at their house in Fujairah, newspapers reported on Wednesday.
The girl, identified as AR, was dropped by an Emirates Communications bus near her house in Murbeh area at the end of the school day on Tuesday.
“She got out of the bus and ran past the rear of the bus towards her waiting sister,” said Lt Colonel Saeed Al Hamar, head of special tasks at Fujeirah police.
“The bus driver apparently could not notice her…as he reversed back to leave the area, the girl was knocked over and died on the spot…the driver was arrested for investigation.”.