Five-year-old boy dies after being hit by taxi in Kiryat Gat

A five-year-old child was killed Wednesday evening after a taxi hit him in the southern city of Kiryat Gat. The boy was run over while crossing the street along with another child in a zone not intended for pedestrian crossing. An MDA ambulance evacuated the unconscious child to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, where he died of his wounds.