A four and a half-year-old boy drowned in a pond in Vasai on Monday afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Dawik Mitina.

The neighbours said there is a small pond in an agricultural field near the boy’s house and he was playing near that pond. “When the boy did not return home, his mother went to look for him. While searching, she reached near the pond and found his body floating in the pond,” said a neighbour.