A Class-IV boy was killed after being run over by a tractor when he was on the way to his school near Kushabata under the Bari police limits in Jajpur district on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Shatrujit Jena (12) of Golakuntha village under Saikhand Panchayat in the district. Sources said that while Shatrujit was going to school by his bicycle and crossing an embankment of river Brahmani, the driver the tractor that was engaged for a repair work on the embankment lost control of the vehicle, which ran over him. The boy died on the spot.
The tractor driver fled from the spot leaving the vehicle.