Two school students dead at Greenacre: Dying boy yelled ‘I want my mum’
A DISTRAUGHT father has described lifting a 4WD off a dying boy — while another injured child screamed for his mother — moments after the vehicle ploughed into a Western Sydney classroom this morning. Both boys tragically died a short time later.
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A DISTRAUGHT father has described lifting a 4WD off a dying boy — while another injured child screamed for his mother — moments after the vehicle ploughed into a Western Sydney classroom this morning.
Emergency services rushed to Banksia Road Primary School in Greenacre about 9.45am after a Toyota Kluger struck the wooden building.
Two boys, both aged eight, died following the crash and three girls were badly injured.
But moments after the crash, the man — who lives near the school and whose daughter is a student — rushed towards the carnage to help.
He joined with several tradesmen, who had been working at the school, and lifted the Toyota 4WD off the injured students.
“Three of us lifted it and one of the blokes grabbed him out from underneath,” the man, who did not want to be named, said.
He said the badly injured boy was unconscious under the car while his classmate lay a few feet away, speaking to teachers and helpers.
“He was saying ‘I want my mum’. She wouldn’t have got to see him before he died,” the man said.
“He had a big gash in his head.”
The group performed CPR for up to seven minutes before handing over to arriving paramedics.
Witnesses have described the terrifying chain of events, saying the whole thing appears to have been an accident.
“The driver was in the back seat, I don’t know how she got there, and she was just screaming,” one man said.
“She was screaming ‘help me, help me’.”