A GIRL, five, who beat cancer as a toddler has been killed after being hit by a runaway car, according to reports.
Camila de Almeida Torcato, from Toronto, Canada, was diagnosed with the deadly disease aged two.
She battled through rounds of gruelling surgery and chemotherapy to successfully fight off the illness.
After receiving the all-clear to start school, Camila had begun nursery in September, The Toronto Star reports.
But her life was tragically ended just a few short months later when she and her dad were hit by a car as he picked her up from St Raphael Catholic School.
Distraught Amilcar Torcato told the paper how the vehicle with no driver rolled towards them, pinning them against his car.
He said he couldn’t remember how long they remained trapped before they were freed.
But as he lay recovering in his hospital bed he was given the devastating news that his little girl’s organs were failing.
She died on Monday night after suffering internal bleeding.
Emotional Amilcar is quoted as saying: “She was a very special girl – she had problems before, she had cancer – but she was a fighter.”
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He described his daughter as “shy but very sweet” and said his “mind is filled with her memories”.
The grieving father added: “I went to pick her up in school because the day before she asked me if I could.
“Usually her mum picks her up, but that day I did.”
A team of grief counsellors was on hand at the school on Tuesday to help students and faculty cope with the tragic news, the girl’s school told CTV.
Cops are investigating what led to the accident but no charges are yet reported to have been issued.
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