Police identify victim of hit-and-run accident

Police say they have identified the aged woman who was knocked down and died in a hit and run accident on TTK Road, Alwarpet early on Saturday morning.

Once a resident of San Thome, she and her family had resettled in the Kannagi Nagar suburb and she had come to Alwarpet to visit relatives and was going to catch a bus to get back home when the accident took place.

But the vehicle driver involved is yet to be located.