Boy killed in collision with car outside hotel

A YOUNG boy has died after being hit by a car outside a hotel in Manchester.

More than 15 police cars and an ambulance attended the incident, which happened around 9pm last night outside the Ibis Budget Hotel in the Salford Quays area.

Lindsay Avery wrote on Facebook: “I heard the screams and saw people in panic. I called an ambulance because it seemed someone had been hit by a car. I couldn’t actually see anything though, just some very distressed people.”

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: “We were called to reports of a collision between a car and a child. The Serious Collision Investigation Unit and other emergency services attended the scene. A little boy has sadly died.”

Officers said the collision took place in the rear car park of the Ibis, which also connects to the AC Hotel.

Armed police attended the scene as they were in the area at the time, police said.

A manager of a hotel close to the scene of the accident said that there was no security threat. The city has been on heightened security after a suicide bomber killed 22 people at a concert at Manchester Arena in May.

Andy Williamson, another witness, said: “Someone, reportedly a young child, was hit at least twice by a car in the car park.

“A woman was shouting hysterically and a child or children were screaming.”