An 8-year-old boy, who left home to buy food, has been found dead in a quarry near a pond in Thane district in Maharashtra, police said on Tuesday, PTI reported.

While the police filed a case of accidental death after the body was found on Sunday in a quarry near Varhaldevi pond in Thane's Bhiwandi, the boy's family claimed that there were injury marks on his head and foam coming out of his mouth.