Digboi, Sept. 13 -- In a heart-wrenching incident, a young boy engaged as a helper of a grader was crushed to death by the very machine he was assisting, at the Assam Mala road project site in Tinsukia district on Friday afternoon.

The deceased, identified as Dibrujan Mahanta of Selenguri village under Kakopather police station, was run over around 4 p.m. at Kailashpur point under Bordumsa police station, where construction is underway on the 28.4-km Dirok-Philobari-Chikorajan-Mohong stretch.

A grader-a heavy road-construction vehicle fitted with a long blade used to level and flatten surfaces-was the machine involved in the mishap. Mahanta, who was working as its helper, was accidentally overrun while on duty.

He was immediately rushe...