India, March 23 -- A four-year-old boy was strangled to death in the early hours of Saturday in Kandivali West area of Maharashtra's Mumbai. The murder, which took place around 3 am, was captured on a CCTV camera, according to officials.

The victim, identified as Ansh Ansari, was from a family of pavement dwellers, news agency PTI reported.

The family was sleeping on the roadside in the Iraniwadi locality when, according to the CCTV camera footage, a man arrived in the area on a bicycle, carried the boy a few feet away, and throttled him to death with his hands, the official said.

The body of the child was discovered an hour later by his family. The Kandivali police have registered a murder case and launched a probe to track down the k...