A 10-year-old boy died after a large branch of a tree collapsed on him on Friday afternoon at Lower Parel.

As per the information from the Disaster Control Department of the BMC, the branch had fallen in the private compound of Marwadi Chawl at Pandurang Budhkar Marg, opposite Bombay Dyeing Mill. A boy, Samar Bosak, 10, was outside his home and the branch fell on him. Local residents took him to KEM hospital and then to Wadia, but the boy was declared 'brought dead'.