A 21-year-old youth died after he slipped and fell into a pond in Vasai while deeply engrossed in a PUBG game on his phone late Tuesday night. The incident came to light on Wednesday morning when his mother filed a missing person complaint with the Waliv police.

According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Akash Dixit alias Akash Jha, who was playing the game sitting by the pond near his house at Dhaniv Vasai Fata. When his mother called him, he told her he would return only after finishing the game. But when he did not return home till the next morning, she started calling up his friends and went searching for him. Unable to find him, she approached the Waliv police and filed a missing complaint.