A 12-year-old boy was today crushed to death when a towing van plying on the Mumbra bypass here fell on him, police said.
The incident occurred this afternoon, when Sharukh, a resident of Amrut Nagar of Mumbra township here, was returning home from an outing with friends on a bike, a Mumbra police official said.
A towing van, which was on its way from Thane to Panvel and passing from the overhead Mumbra bypass, fell on his bike, killing him on the spot, he said.
A jeep plying close to the bike also got crushed in the incident. However, all its occupants escaped unhurt, he said.
The driver and occupants of the van managed to flee the scene after the mishap, he said.
The body has been sent for post-mortem, the official said, adding firemen were deployed to extricate the piled up vehicles.
A case has been registered under section 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC and further investigation is on, he said.
