A 25-year-old labourer was killed after a road roller ran over him in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Wednesday, reported news agency PTI.

The incident took place when the victim, Prakashkumar Laddu Mahanto, was sleeping after lunch at around 2 pm in front of the road roller parked near a construction site in Bhiwandi town on Tuesday, an official from Kongaon police station said.