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Evening Standard
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Dave Higgens

Teenager who died in ‘hit and run’ had just arrived in UK ‘for a better future’

Abdullah Yaser Abdullah Al Yazidi, 16, died in the collision in Sheffield on Wednesday (South Yorkshire Police/PA) -

A 16-year-old boy who died after he was hit by a car which appeared to mount the pavement had recently arrived in the UK from Yemen “for a better future”, his family said as a second man was arrested on suspicion of murder.

Abdullah Yaser Abdullah Al Yazidi was walking along Staniforth Road, in the Darnall area of Sheffield, on Wednesday afternoon when he was hit by an Audi car which appeared to be driving on the wrong side of the road at three electric bikes.

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