On Sunday morning, as he was driving his motorbike near the police hospital at Egmore, a Chennai corporation garbage truck allegedly knocked him down, police said.

The driver of the truck couldn’t bring the vehicle to a halt and the wheels ran over the man, killing him on the spot. Upon information, police rushed to the spot and recovered the body. The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem.

Anna Square TIW (traffic investigation wing) have registered a case and have launched a search for the driver, who is at large. Police said that the deceased was wearing a helmet.

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