An afternoon bike ride with childhood friends ended in tragedy for 18-year-old Hasan Raza Jahagir Alam Sayeed after a tree branch allegedly snapped and fell onto the motorcycle he was riding pillion on in Aarey Milk Colony on Saturday. Hasan, a BCom student from Sakinaka, suffered a severe head injury and was declared brought dead at Balaji Hospital in Malad. Doctors who conducted the post-mortem on Sunday listed polytrauma as the provisional cause of death.

According to friends, Hasan and three others had left Sakinaka on two motorcycles around noon for a leisure ride. After stopping for tea and snacks in Aarey, they were returning home when the accident took place around 3.30 pm on Unit 13 Road.