MUMBAI: A 19-year-old youth died on Sunday morning after he fell from his sixth-floor residence to the building’s third-floor podium in Mazgaon. The victim was suffering from a sleepwalking condition, said the police. The police received a call from a private hospital, after which a team reached the hospital. Family members of the victim, Mustafa Chunawala, mentioned that he had a sleepwalking (somnambulism) condition.
“His mother had woken up for prayers in the morning.Chunawala fell from the sixth floor to the third-floor podium. Hearing a thud, the family rushed to see what had happened and found Chunawala lying on the podium. He was rushed to the hospital and was declared dead upon arrival,” said a police officer. The incident occurred around 5am on Sunday in a building on Nesbit Road in Mazgaon, Central Mumbai.
An officer from the Byculla police said they have registered an accidental death case and an investigation is underway. tnn