Toddler dies after accidentally being run over by her grandfather

NICOSIA village Paleometocho was yesterday plunged into mourning, after a pensioner accidentally ran over his 14-month-old granddaughter.

According to the police, 14-month-old Eleftheria Ioannou was being looked after by her grandparents when at a little after 9 am, she escaped her grandmother’s attention and went through the basement onto the road outside and sat on the ground behind her grandfather’s parked car.

Her grandfather then started up the car and reversed, running over the toddler. As soon as he realised what happened, he rushed his granddaughter with a neighbour to a private hospital, where doctors attempted for over three hours to save the little girl’s life. She passed away a little after noon.

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