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Manchester mosque suspected hit-and-run: Police question three men over schoolboy’s death

Three men have been arrested by police after an 11-year-old boy died

 

Three men have been arrested by police after an 11-year-old boy died in an alleged hit-and-run incident in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. Two men, aged 19 and 27, turned themselves in separately at Ashton Police Station and a third man, aged 23, was subsequently arrested.

The boy was hit by a Mercedes car at about 4:45pm GMT on February 29thafter leaving the mosque with his family. The vehicle did not stop at the scene. The dark grey Mercedes A class has been seized and will be forensically examined, the Manchester Evening News reported.

The unnamed boy was taken to hospital, but died shortly after. 

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