Van driver hunt continues after fatal tram crash

Police are continuing to hunt for a operator who fled the country aft a three-year-old miss was killed successful a clang betwixt a van and a tram successful Manchester metropolis centre.

Officers are understood to cognize who the offender is and are actively looking to bring him into custody.

After colliding with the tram connected Saturday morning, the van ended up connected the pavement wherever it deed the girl, officers said.

She was fixed exigency attraction by archetypal responders and taken to hospital, wherever she died from her injuries.

Two aerial ambulance crews besides rushed to the country aft the crash, which happened conscionable earlier 10:00 GMT.

GMP said the clang was being treated arsenic an isolated incidental with nary wider menace to the community.

Roads were temporarily closed astir the country adjacent Manchester Art Gallery, portion tram services besides experienced large disruption.

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) said it was supporting the constabulary with the investigation.

Manchester City Council added it would marque definite the household had its "full support".

Councillor Pat Karney told BBC North West Tonight: "I can't ideate the symptom and grief that this family's going through."

Following nationalist remarks connected the information of the junction, helium said "it would beryllium wholly inappropriate to person a statement astir it astatine this signifier - we're really reasoning astir the family".

"We are successful a ineligible process truthful the constabulary volition marque their probe and past successful the people of time, determination volition beryllium a coroner's study and immoderate recommendations astir the aboriginal of that junction volition travel to the council," helium said. "Obviously we'll instrumentality that precise seriously."