On Saturday, a 12-year-old boy died after falling into a water-filled pit, dug for the construction of the Coastal Road, near Worli. The decased, identified as Bablu Kumar Paswan drowned in the pit near Worli Sea Link at 1.20 pm on Friday, said an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

Mumbai: A 12-year-old boy drowned in a pit dug for a Coastal Road Project at Coastal Road, Worli Sea Link today; was admitted to nearby hospital by locals where he was declared brought dead. pic.twitter.com/HYtNzOujDG

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The ambitious 8-lane Coastal Road will link Marine Lines in south Mumbai with suburban Kandivali in the north. "Locals rescued the boy and rushed him to the nearby Nair Hospital where he was declared brought dead," the official said. It was being probed how he fell into the pit, he added.