SHIJONAWATE, Osaka -- A junior high school girl died and her younger sister was seriously injured after they apparently fell from a bridge onto a national highway here and were hit by multiple cars early Saturday, police said.

At around 12:10 a.m. on Saturday, a number of cars hit a 15-year-old girl and her 13-year-old sister on Route 163 in Shijonawate and sped off, local police said.

The sisters, both junior high school students, were rushed to hospital where the elder sister died shortly afterwards and the younger sister remains in serious condition.

Noting that the 15-year-old girl's bag was found on a bridge above the highway and their bicycle was abandoned about one kilometer west of the bridge, investigators suspect that the sisters plunged 13 meters from the bridge before being hit by the cars.

The sisters had left home by bicycle about two hours before the accident. (Mainichi)

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