India, Aug. 11 -- A seven-year-old boy was killed after an e-rickshaw loaded with water bottles toppled onto him while he was cycling with friends near his home in Faridabad's Sector 31, police said on Monday. The boy, a resident of the same area, and a Class-III student at a private school in Faridabad, was due to celebrate his birthday on Tuesday.

The incident took place around 5.30pm on Saturday when the boy was returning home after cycling with his friends. Police said he reached a T-point near his residence and collided with the three-wheeler coming from the opposite direction.

Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, said the e-rickshaw had partially climbed onto the porch of a house along the road, causing it ...