A four-year-old boy has died after being struck by a bus outside a hospital in Kent.
Zaahir Jan had been visiting his grandmother at the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Hospital in Margate just after 4pm on Thursday.
The boy was hit by a white single decker bus which was travelling near the entrance to the A&E department, Kent Police said.
He had reportedly left the hospital on foot before the collision took place.
The child was taken back inside the hospital where he was pronounced dead soon after.
His mother, Azaria Green told of her devastation on a GoFundMe page, saying: “I wish you were in my bed tonight, cuddling. I love you, my boy.”
She said Zaahir fell under the bus and died immediately.
“I am so lost,” she wrote.
“He was my son, my most beautiful little Jan.
“I don’t know what to do. I can’t believe you are gone from me. I can’t believe they couldn’t save you. I can’t believe this happened.
"Everyone is devastated, but that word doesn't feel like enough to explain how we are all feeling.
“Our sweet, funny boy with a cheeky smile that could make anyone’s heart full. The smile that we can’t see again.
“I didn't even get to tell you how much I love you.”
Investigators from the force’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit are urging anyone with relevant information to come forward.
Witnesses, including passengers travelling on the bus who have not yet spoken to police, should call 01622 798538 or email sciu.td@kent.pnn.police.uk, quoting reference KH//055/25.
