SAINT-ALBERT, Que. — A four-year old boy was killed when his dad inadvertently ran him over with a snowblower on a dairy farm in central Quebec.

It happened around suppertime on Sunday in Saint-Albert, Que., about 150 km northeast of Montreal.

Eyewitnesses said the child was inside the cab of a tractor that had a snow blower attached to the back.

At one point, the child left the vehicle. The father didn’t realize the child was in his path, started up the machine and struck the boy.

Quebec provincial police Sgt. Claude Denis said the child died on impact. He didn’t give further details.

Investigators were on the scene and a coroner also travelled to the dairy farm."