The two-wheeler skidded and fell on the road, following which a water tanker passing by crushed the boy to death, the official said.
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A five-year-old boy riding pillion on a two-wheeler was crushed to death by a water tanker in Maharashtra's Thane city on Friday, a civic official said.
The accident took place in the afternoon when the family was riding on a scooter on Ghodbunder Road, chief of the civic disaster management cell Santosh Kadam said.
The two-wheeler skidded and fell on the road, following which a water tanker passing by crushed the boy to death, the official said.
The boy's parents sustained injuries and are undergoing treatment at a hospital, he said, adding that further probe is underway.
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