Car runs over child four times

A 3-year-old boy in Xinyi of Xuzhou in East China's Jiangsu province died after a BMW ran over him four times in less than half a minute.

The BMW driver surnamed Wu has been detained for further investigation while the incident triggered an uproar among netizens.

The incident happened around 11 am on Sept 7 when the boy Le Le (not his real name) was playing behind a BMW X6 car in a residential community, the Nanjing-based Yangtze Evening News reported.

The driver drove the car backwards without looking behind the car and knocked down the boy, the report said.

"My son was run over four times," the boy's father surnamed Li was quoted as saying while crying and watching the surveillance video that happened to catch the entire accident.

The video shows that at 11:03:18, the upper half of the boy's body was hit by the car, knocking him down.

The boy was on the ground, kicking his legs.

The car stopped for a moment and then ran over the boy again and again.

The BMW car was equipped with both rear-view mirrors and a sensor that sounds a warning when the car, driving in reverse, nears an object.

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