India, Dec. 16 -- A seven-year-old boy was killed after falling off a two-wheeler that hit a pothole and was subsequently run over by a heavy vehicle on the Parol-Shirsad-Ambadi road in Palghar district on Saturday evening.

According to the police, the incident occurred at 4.45 pm on Saturday when the boy, Harsh Thori, his parents and his sister left their home in Achole, Nalasopara, on a two-wheeler to visit the Vajreshwari temple in Vasai. When they reached Usgaon on the Parol-Shirsad-Ambadi road in Palghar, their motorcycle hit a pothole and skidded, throwing all four of them onto the road.

"After the child fell on the road, a speeding heavy vehicle ran over him, causing his death on the spot," senior police inspector Ranjit Andhale ...