On Friday, an 8-year-old boy participating on a 360-kilometer Nashik to Pandharpur "cycle wari" was killed after being run over by a truck near Sinnar Bypass in the district, the police said. An official identified the child as Prem Sachin Nifade and said his parents were part of the cycle-wari organised by the Nashik Cyclists Foundation.

Wari is a pilgrimage, done mostly by foot, to Pandharpur, a holy town venerated as the seat of Lord Vithoba. "The accident happened on the Nashik-Pune highway in the morning. The truck first hit the cycle and the impact brought the child under its rear wheels. He was rushed to a hospital but died en route," the official said.