A 9-year-old boy lost his life after falling into a canal while trying to catch a drifting kite in Nagpur city of Maharashtra, police officials said on Thursday, reported the PTI.

The deceased, Dayashankar Awdhesh Prajapati, and his elder brother Kailash (13), residents of Mahadula, were chasing a drifting kite at around 1 pm on Wednesday when they suddenly slipped into a nearby canal, they said, as per the PTI.