A 21-year-old delivery man tragically lost his life after being run over by a BEST bus near the Standard Mill bus stop in Prabhadevi on Thursday night.

According to eyewitness Milind Ramesh Ambukar, 50, the accident occurred around 8.50 pm. Ambukar, who was waiting for a bus near the Decathlon building, saw a BEST AC bus operating on Route No. 171 (Chunabhatti to Worli) passing and heard a loud noise. Moments later, bystanders saw a scooter lying on Appasaheb Marathe Marg and a young man lying beside it. The man, identified as Sarthak Suryakant Jangam, had been run over by the bus and suffered fatal head injuries.