A two-year-old boy was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official said on Saturday, adding that the police have launched a manhunt to trace the vehicle driver, reported the PTI.

The boy who was identified as Gurunath Wagh was fatally knocked down by an unidentified vehicle while he was outside his home at Kadivali village in Wada taluka in Palghar district on Thursday evening, the official said, according to the PTI.