Playful Banter Turns Deadly: Woman Falls from Thane Building, Dies

Thane: A 35-year-old woman who worked as a cleaner died after falling from the third floor of a building here while joking around and sharing a light moment with a male colleague, police said on Thursday.

The incident took place on Tuesday morning at an office in the Dombivli MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation) in Thane district and a video of it went viral on social media.

The woman and her colleague were having fun when they both accidentally slipped from the parapet of the third -floor office, an official from Manpada police station said.

The woman fell on the ground. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead, he said, adding the body was sent for post-mortem.

Her colleague got stuck at the parapet after falling and survived with injuries, the police said.

The Manpada police have as of now registered a case of accidental death and are conducting a probe into it, the official said

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