<p>Rakesh Pawar, a local Mumbai cricketer and a popular coach, was brutally hacked to death near the Mahavir petrol pump on the Lal Bahadur Shastri Road in Bhandup.</p>.<p>The incident took place around 11.45 pm 00.30 am on the intervening night of Thursday-Friday. Senior police officials said that three persons brutally attacked him with choppers and iron rod. </p>.<p>He was rushed to Mulund general hospital by the employees of the petrol pump, where he was pronounced dead on admission.</p>.<p>"The victim has suffered gruesome injuries on his face and head, and was lying in a pool of blood," the officials said. The Bhandup police station has registered a case.</p>.<p>He was reportedly accompanied by a female friend, whose statement is being recorded.</p>.<p>The police have secured the CCTV footage of the petrol pump to check on the identity of the three assailants.</p>.<p>Pawar, a district-level cricketer, who was in his mid-thirties, used to coach kids from Bhandup, Mulund and Thane. He is survived by wife and two children.</p>
<p>Rakesh Pawar, a local Mumbai cricketer and a popular coach, was brutally hacked to death near the Mahavir petrol pump on the Lal Bahadur Shastri Road in Bhandup.</p>.<p>The incident took place around 11.45 pm 00.30 am on the intervening night of Thursday-Friday. Senior police officials said that three persons brutally attacked him with choppers and iron rod. </p>.<p>He was rushed to Mulund general hospital by the employees of the petrol pump, where he was pronounced dead on admission.</p>.<p>"The victim has suffered gruesome injuries on his face and head, and was lying in a pool of blood," the officials said. The Bhandup police station has registered a case.</p>.<p>He was reportedly accompanied by a female friend, whose statement is being recorded.</p>.<p>The police have secured the CCTV footage of the petrol pump to check on the identity of the three assailants.</p>.<p>Pawar, a district-level cricketer, who was in his mid-thirties, used to coach kids from Bhandup, Mulund and Thane. He is survived by wife and two children.</p>