India, Feb. 11 -- A 13-year-old pillion rider was killed after a container truck ran over her near the Eastern Freeway ramp in Mazgaon on Tuesday morning. Her father, who was riding the two-wheeler, was trying to escape a collision with a police jeep that was being driven on the wrong side, when the vehicle skidded and the girl fell under the truck, the police said.

According to the police, Abdul Wahid Bora, a businessman and a tuition teacher from Dongri, along with his daughter Ayat Bora, a student of a school in Byculla, was on his way to Kurla to purchase herbal products for his business.

"When they reached the BPT Road near the Eastern Freeway ramp, a police jeep allegedly approached from the wrong side of the road. To avoid a coll...