Sleepwalking is somewhat common, especially among children, but it is not a harmless occurrence. A 19-year-old youth died on Sunday morning after he fell from his sixth-floor residence on a building’s third-floor podium in Mumbai. The victim was suffering from a sleepwalking condition.
Here’s how a seemingly harmless ailment can turn fatal. The incident The fatal incident took place at around 5 am on Sunday at the Aqua Gem Tower on Nesbit Road in the Mazgaon area in south Mumbai, an official said. Mustafa Ibrahim Chunawala was found lying unconscious at the podium on the building’s third floor, he said.
According to PTI , after receiving information, police reached the spot and rushed the man to Saifi Hospital, where doctors declared him dead before his arrival, the official said. Chunawala was having the issue of “somnambulism” (sleepwalking), he said. “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,” a police officer was quoted as saying by The Times of India .
The Byculla police have registered a case of accidental death, the official said, adding that a probe is underway into the case. Last year, a Kandivali-based teen lost his life after he sleepwalked and fell from the 10th-floor balcony of a Singapore hotel while on a vacation.
