Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday in Maharashtra’s Latur district to mourn a Maratha quota protester whose body was being transported from Mumbai to his village after he died of a heart attack in the city, PTI reported.

Vijaykumar Chandrakant Ghogare, a resident of Takalgaon, had gone to Mumbai with a group of 40 men to participate in the ongoing quota agitation led by activist Manoj Jarange at Azad Maidan.

While moving through the Pydhonie area in South Mumbai on Saturday, Ghogare complained of chest pain and was rushed to a hospital. However, doctors declared him dead, officials said.