Ille-et-Vilaine. A farm machine strikes and kills a three-year-old boy.

Terrible drama unfolded in a field near Rennes in Guipry-Messac, Ille-et-Vilaine.

Ille-et-Vilaine. A farm machine strikes and kills a three-year-old boy.

Terrible drama unfolded in a field near Rennes in Guipry-Messac, Ille-et-Vilaine. On Tuesday, a three-year-old boy died after being struck by the tractor of his father.

"The three-year old child was found dead today at 12:25 p.m. Philippe Astruc, Rennes' public prosecutor, stated that the preferred explanation is an accident.

According to Ouest France, the operator was mowing along with a trainee when his son fell from the tractor. The rotary cutter caught him. Paramedics arrived to find the child already dead.