A 48-year-old man was killed after cement bricks fell on him at a construction site in Thane district of Maharashtra, police said on Monday.
The incident occurred in Ambernath area on Saturday when the victim, Vasant Kushabha Sathe, went to the construction site of a business park to deliver the cement bricks in a truck.
As he got off the truck to unload the material, some bricks from a construction lift at the site fell on his head, leaving him severely injured, an official from Ambernath police station said.
Some people present there rushed the man to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, he said.
The police sent the body for postmortem and registered a case of accidental death, he said.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Featured Video Of The Day
"Learnt Kung Fu To Hurt MPs?" BJP After MP Blames Rahul Gandhi For Injury
Alert Constable Saves Woman From Falling Under Moving Train In Thane Video: Heavy Firing On Street Near Mumbai Amid Fight Between 2 Groups BJP Councillor Charged For Allegedly Abusing Civic Officials Over Offs BJP To File Police Case Against Rahul Gandhi After MPs Allege Injury Ambedkar Row: Congress Doubles Down After BJP's Soros Edit Of Protest Pic "Entitled To Relief": Vijay Mallya On Banks Recovering Rs 14,131 Crore Assets What Priyanka Must Discard If She's Serious About Congress Revival With Spate Of Lawsuits, Trump Vows To "Straighten Out" The Corrupt" US Media "Injuries On My Knees": M Kharge To Speaker After Parliament Showdown Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.