A 14-year-old is knocked down by a car draped with a flag in the southern city of Montpellier.
By Paul KirbyA 14-year-old boy has been run over and killed in the southern French city of Montpellier shortly after France's World Cup semi-final victory over Morocco.Images on social media showed a car draped in a French tricolour surrounded by people who then grabbed the flag.As he turned his car around and sped off, the 14-year-old was hit and went into cardiac arrest.
"Immense sadness that a sporting event should end in total tragedy," said local MP Nathalie Oziol, who expressed her sympathy with the boy's family. The local prefect in the southern Hérault area said the car was later found abandoned not far from the scene of the accident, and police have begun searching for the driver.
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