Gurugram, April 25 -- A two-year-old boy was crushed to death by a speeding cab in Gurugram's Sector 52 on Thursday morning, police said. The cab driver fled the scene after the child was rushed to a hospital, they added.

The incident occurred around 8.55am in a lane in C Block of Ardee City.

The boy, identified as Sanskar, was playing in the lane with other children while his parents, Mithun Ahirwal and Sushila Devi, sat nearby on the pavement. The parents are daily wage workers who had come to the neighbourhood for work with others, while their children were playing on the roadside.

A couple with two children had just boarded the cab when the accident occurred, police said.

"Either the driver didn't see the child or was in a hurry,"...