India, Nov. 7 -- A five-year-old boy accidentally started an unattended e-rickshaw in north Delhi's Burari, running over his two-year-old cousin and killing him on the spot, police said on Thursday.

Police said they have booked e-rickshaw driver Raja Ram for negligence leading to death, in the incident that took place on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Mihir, a resident of Seelampur.

They said that the incident adds to the rising number of fatalities and road crashes involving e-rickshaws, with at least 27 deaths so far linked to the alleged negligence of rickshaw drivers.

A senior police officer, not wishing to be named, said the incident took place in Uttarakhand Colony of Burari on Tuesday afternoon. Around 2pm, Ram left his...