London: Hit-and-run driver arrested

A 50-YEAR-OLD man was arrested on Friday in connection with a hit-and-run which killed a Singaporean medical student in Hampstead, London.

Miss Tan Mingwei, 20, a medical undergraduate at Cambridge University, was found dead at about 2am near the Belsize Park tube station.

Miss Tan was dragged for almost 2km down Haverstock Hill after being struck outside the Royal Free Hospital in Pond Street, Hampstead at about 2am on Thursday. Despite the efforts of ambulance service medics, she was pronounced dead shortly after.

Miss Tan, who was at Peterhouse College, was about to go into her third year of her medical sciences degree. MORE