A four-year-old boy is dead after being crushed by a truck in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region.
The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. Saturday near the entrance to a chalet in the Monts-Valin area.
The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) police say the boy’s parents lost track of him while they were unloading a snowmobile from the truck.
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The child was struck when the vehicle began to back up.
He was taken to hospital in critical condition but died a short time later.
The SQ’s accident reconstruction experts have been called to the scene to aid the investigation.
–With files from Global News’ Alessia Maratta
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