Thane, Nov 6 (PTI) A 20-year-old man was killed by unidentified persons in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Monday.

The victim, a vagabond, was found lying in a pool of blood with multiple wounds in Saiba Nagar locality of Kalwa area on Monday, an official at the police control room said.

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The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem.

The police suspect the incident took place in the early hours of Monday when the victim went out with some friends, the official said.

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The motive behind the killing was not yet known.

A case of murder has been registered against unidentified persons and a probe is on into it, the police said.

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