Rajbiraj, July 5 -- year-old pedestrian died after being hit by an electric rickshaw-commonly known as a City Safari-in Barhi Birpur of Chhinnamasta Rural Municipality-1, Saptari district, on Friday night.

The rickshaw was en route from Rajbiraj to Lokharam at the time of the incident. The victim, Kusheshwar Marik of Kankatta in Bishnupur Rural Municipality-4, sustained critical injuries after being struck and was immediately rushed to Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital in Rajbiraj, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

Although the police have taken the vehicle into custody, the driver fled the scene and remains at large.

Marik's family lodged a formal complaint on Saturday, accusing the driver of causing the fatal crash by opera...