Karaganda police detain BMW X5 driver who killed pedestrian

KARAGANDA. December 12. KAZINFORM - Karaganda police officers have arrested a 21-year-old driver of the BMW X5 who run down a girl walking on a crosswalk and fled the scene of the accident, according to Ergabyl Zhukenov, the Deputy Chief of the administrative police of the DIA of Karaganda region.

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The tragedy has happened today, December 12, at 07.30 am in the center of Karaganda. The driver BMW X5 hit a young girl to death and fled the accident scene. The dead was a third year student of Karaganda State Medical University, a resident of the South Kazakhstan region. Police asked witnesses to help in the search for a guilty person.

According to Zhukenov the arrested 21-year-old driver made ​​a confession. The circumstances of the traffic accident are being investigated.