Toddler dies after he was run over by lawnmower being driven by his dad

'He didn't see him'

Police officers in South Pambula, Australia, were called to Pambula District Hospital on Saturday at about 12:30pm after the child was brought in with severe injuries, ABC News reports.

Despite resuscitation attempts by paramedics, he succumbed to his injuries.

A police spokesman said: "He [the father] reversed over the poor child. He didn't see him."

Crime scenes have been established at both the hospital and at a property in South Pambula, on the far south coast of New South Wales.

Police are not expected to lay any charges but are required to investigate such deaths to provide a report to the coroner.

"I don't think anything you could do to the father would change the way he feels unfortunately,' the police spokesman said.

"It's unusual, it's not a death that's caused by natural causes, so that's why we're doing what we're doing."

Karen Wright, a Bega Valley Shire councillor from South Pambula, said: "It is absolutely tragedy and my heart goes out to the family."

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