Gurugram, Jun 7 (PTI) Gurugram, Jun 7 (PTI) A 19-year-old student was killed after a vehicle rammed into his motorcycle, flinging it off the IIFCO Chowk flyover and on to the Delhi-Gurugram expressway below, police said on Friday.

According to police, the incident occurred on Thursday evening.

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The victim's mother, Supriya Sharma filed a complaint and said that Rhythem Sharma, studying at KR Mangalam University in Gurugram, had gone to drop his friend off around 6 pm on his Yamaha motorcycle, police said.

"After dropping his friend at IFFCO Chowk, Rhythem took a U-turn from the flyover and was moving towards Gurugram. During that time a speeding vehicle hit my son's bike. Due to the collision, he fell along with the motorcycle from the flyover," the victim's mother Supriya Sharma said in her complaint.

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"He was critically injured and was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries at around 11:00 pm on Thursday", she said.

Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered against an unknown driver under sections 279 (rash driving), 304-A (death due to negligence) of the Indian Penal Code at the Sector 18 police station on Friday.

A senior police officer said that CCTV cameras are installed on the flyover which are being examined. The body was handed over to kin after the postmortem.

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