Young Woman Falls Off Apartment Talking On Mobile Phone

Ongole: A 23-year-old woman died after falling off the fifth floor of an apartment at Bhagyanagar colony in Ongole town on Sunday night.

Tripura, residing at Mahalakshmi Residency in the town, got a call at around 1am midnight when she was asleep, family members said. While answering the call, she walked up to the terrace and was sitting on the parapet wall. After a while she slipped and fell from the terrace. She died immediately due to the grievous injuries she sustained on head, eyewitnesses said.

Tripura completed her BTech this year and got a bank job recently which she was about join. Doubts are being expressed by the family that she might have jumped off the apartment due to any threat she received on the phone.

Police are investigating the case.