A 16-year-old boy from Diva in Thane city of Maharashtra was swept away in a swollen nullah on Wednesday night, officials told news agency PTI.

The boy, identified as Vaseem Sayyed and residing in MS Compound in Khardi village, fell into the water body located near his house and was swept away in the strong current, chief of the Disaster Management Cell of the Thane civic body Yasin Tadvi told PTI.