Police arrested a suspect in an alleged hit-and-run accident after a nine-year-old boy riding a bicycle was killed by a truck on Monday in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon.
The boy was later named as David Ohayon.
The driver did not stop after hitting Ohayon, police said in a statement.
Paramedics who were called to the location on Yisachar Street declared Ohayon dead.
Eyewitnesses said they saw the driver bolt the scene after the accident, Channel 12 reported.
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Hours later, police arrested the driver, an Ashkelon resident in his 60s, and took him in for questioning.
Magen David Adom said in a statement that paramedics called to the incident found Ohayon lying several meters away from the bicycle he had been riding, unconscious, with serious head injuries, and showing no vital signs.
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