In a bizarre incident, a seven-year-old boy was crushed to death by a descending elevator of a four-storeyed building in Vasai on Saturday morning. The deceased has been identified as Ansh Kumar, who lived with his parents and siblings on the first floor of Dias Residency Park in Vasai East.

Local residents said four children, including two siblings of the deceased, had entered the elevator on the first floor to come down to play. "The elevator started from the first floor, but it stopped mid-way while descending around 10.30 am and all of them began to panic inside the closed elevator.