Woman injured in chawl slab collapse in Mumbai, cause being probed

MUMBAI: A 25-year-old woman was injured after the slab of a dilapidated chawl collapsed beneath her while she was drying clothes in Mankhurd on Saturday evening.The incident took place around 6.34 pm at Shree Saraswati Chawl in Ambedkar Nagar, PMGP Colony.According to civic officials, the woman had entered the first floor of an unoccupied, dilapidated ground-plus-one structure to dry clothes when the slab suddenly gave way, causing her to fall to the ground floor.Ward staff rushed to the spot and shifted the injured woman, identified as Sunita Yadav (25), to Shatabdi Hospital.She was later referred to Sion Hospital for further treatment.On Sunday evening, hospital authorities informed the BMC that Yadav had taken Discharge Against Medical Advice (DAMA) and left Sion Hospital on Sunday morning.The exact cause of the slab collapse is yet to be ascertained.Civic officials said the structure was vacant and in a dilapidated condition.