India, Sept. 6 -- The Janmashtami festivities took a tragic turn, claiming two lives on Saturday - a seven-year-old boy was killed when he and his friends attempted to break a dahi handi at Ekta Welfare Society at Chikuwadi on the Malad-Marve Road. The other casualty was a 34-year-old Navi Mumbai resident, who died when the human pyramid he was a part of collapsed at Ghansoli at 8:30pm.

In Malvani, seven-year-old Rudra Kadam succumbed to head injuries sustained when a brick column collapsed as the children struck the pot strung on a rope tied to the column at one end and a tree at the other.

Manisha Kadam, 28, Rudra's mother, says she wanted to go to her mother's place and had asked Rudra to accompany her. "He said I should go and he wo...