A 30-year-old man jumps to his death from the 19th floor of a building in Mumbai

A 30-yr-antique security protect fell to demise from the balcony of a flat positioned at the nineteenth floor of a sixty one-storey residential constructing in significant Mumbai after a prime fireplace broke accessible on Friday, a fireplace brigade legitimate stated.

A video of the tragic incident has long past viral on social media, which suggests the person precariously dangling from the balcony simply earlier than falling to his death.

The blaze erupted on the nineteenth floor of One Avighna Park building on Currey Road shortly earlier than midday, the reliable stated.

"After the fireplace broke out, Arun Tiwari, a protection protect of the constructing, rushed to the nineteenth ground. But he quickly realised that he was trapped and so one can keep himself from the blaze, he went to the balcony of the flat, wherein the fire had erupted. He hung on to the balcony's railing and kept precariously dangling from there. He clung to the railing for numerous mins earlier than losing his grip and falling to his demise," the legitimate stated.

After Tiwari fell to the floor, he was rushed to the civic-run KEM health facility, in which he turned into declared dead, he delivered.

The fire brigade stated it as a degree-four (important) fireplace.

A civic respectable stated the fireplace become introduced below control with the aid of four.20 pm after round four hours of efforts.

Talking to newshounds, Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal stated an inquiry might be executed into the incident.

Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar, who visited the constructing, stated the sufferer's life could have been stored if the private security guards appointed at the building have been well-trained.

The constructing's safety provider guards had 15 mins to act earlier than he misplaced the grip and fell, she stated adding, they must have arranged a few big material to seize him or unfold a few mattresses on the floor.

"They had 15 mins to take vital steps. Had they caught him in a bedsheet below or placed mattresses on the ground, he would possibly have survived," Pednekar said.

He lost his grip before the fireplace brigade positioned the ladder to store him, she added.