Ramsgate: Man charged over family hit-and-run deaths
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Noga Sella and her father Yoram Hirshfeld died when they were hit by a car in Ramsgate
A suspected drug-driver has been charged after a father and daughter were killed in a Ramsgate hit-and-run.
A black Alfa Romeo hit a family of five pedestrians on Wednesday in Leopold Street, killing Yoram Hirshfeld, 81, and Noga Sella, 37. Her daughter, six, also suffered serious injuries.
Nitesh Bissendary, 30, has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
He will appear at Folkestone Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
The family were hit by a car on Wednesday night
Mr Bissendary, of Highlands Glade, Manston, was additionally charged with two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He has also been charged with failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic collision, drug driving and failing to provide a sample for analysis.
The crash, outside a multi-storey car park, also caused injuries to Mrs Sella's husband, 40, and son, eight.
The six-year-old girl remains in a serious but stable condition in a London hospital.
Flowers and tributes have been left at the scene of the crash
A 58-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman have also been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
Both have since been released on bail pending further inquiries until 8 September.
After the crash, the Israeli government said the man and daughter who died were Israeli.
Kent Police has renewed its appeal for witnesses, local businesses with CCTV evidence or drivers with dashcam footage of the crash at about 21:35 BST to come forward.
People gathered to light candles and hold a minute's silence at the scene of the crash
A vigil was held on Thursday evening on Leopold Street to pay tribute to the family, who were on holiday in Ramsgate.
Friends of Mr Hirshfeld, a former mathematics professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel, spoke of his kindness.
Tributes were also paid to Mrs Sella, a Cambridge physicist, who was a girl guides leader with 2nd Milton Guides and Milton Rangers in Cambridgeshire.
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