Singapore. A six-year-old Indonesian girl has died after she and her mother were struck by a car in Singapore’s Chinatown on Friday, local authorities said as quoted by The Straits Times.

Singapore police said they were alerted to an accident involving a car and two pedestrians along South Bridge Road at about 11:50 a.m. The pedestrians — a 31-year-old woman and her six-year-old daughter — were conscious when they were taken to hospital. The child later died from her injuries.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force said both victims were taken to Singapore General Hospital.

Chinese-language daily Lianhe Zaobao reported that the mother and daughter were tourists from Indonesia. The newspaper said the incident occurred at a car park next to the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, a popular tourist site in the Chinatown area.

A witness who said they were walking behind the victims described the scene as the car exited the car park. “I was the first pedestrian behind a mother and her daughter,” the witness said on the SG Road Vigilante Facebook page, adding that the driver appeared to be turning out of the car park without checking for pedestrians on her right.

“She only looked to her left while turning right,” the witness said. 

The witness alleged that the vehicle then accelerated suddenly. “After that, she suddenly accelerated, causing the rear wheel to run over the mother’s stomach. I don’t understand why she accelerated so quickly while exiting the car park,” the witness said.

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