Witnesses said the truck hit a rickshaw in which Tanvir Hasan Rabbi, 8, son of Shamsul Haq Khan and a student of class three of Bogra Zila School, was going to school. Rabbi fell on the road.

"But the driver drove his truck over Rabbi instead of halting it. Rabbi died instantly," says a spot account of the tragic end of the boy.

Locals chased and halted the truck, set it ablaze and beat up its driver Milon and helper Rubel. The trucker and his helper were later handed over to police.

The protestors also put up road barricades in front of Namajgarh truck terminal demanding punishment to the truck driver and shifting of the terminal to Bhober Bazar.

They took out a procession carrying the body of Rabbi and submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner.