The site where the incident took place
MUMBAI: A 10-year-old boy lost his life after he fell into a large pit of cow dung and water at Kandivali West, while trying to retrieve a kite, on Thursday.
Durvesh Jadhav, a class V student, lived in a neighbouring building at Shankar Pada and had ventured into a cow shed, police said. An accidental death case has been recorded but the police will probe if the cow shed owner was at fault.
Jadhav lived with his parents in an SRA building. Around 3.30pm, he was at home with his mother when he saw a kite sweep down towards a cow shed next to his building. The plot is surrounded with asbestos sheets on all sides. Police said Jadhav found a gap in one of the sheets and slipped inside. But he did not know that the cowdung and water inside was as deep as five feet. He slipped and fell inside.