Gurugram, Nov. 10 -- A 29-year-old man died after being struck on the head by a brick allegedly thrown from the terrace of a four-storey house following a dispute over bursting firecrackers in Manohar Nagar, Sector 8, on Sunday night, police said on Monday.

The victim, Mithun Kumar, a native of Madhepura in Bihar, was rushed to a private hospital before being referred to the Civil Hospital in Sector 10A. Given his critical condition, doctors referred him to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, but he died around 1am on Monday while being taken there, police said.

According to police, the incident took place between 9.30pm and 10pm, when Mithun had gone to meet an acquaintance. He was bursting firecrackers when a man on the terrace of a nearby ...