A 28-year-old man was killed by some unidentified persons here in Maharashtra, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on the intervening night of Sunday-Monday in Badlapur township here, they said.

Some passersby spotted the body of Prasad Jinjukre, who used to do painting work, near a bridge and alerted the police, Badlapur East police station's senior inspector Srikant Sonde said. The culprits had smashed the victim's face with a stone, he said.