MUMBAI: A 55-year-old woman died after the wall of a public toilet block collapsed when she was inside at Kurla (W) early on Monday. Droupadi Rawle, from Navpada slum, was trapped under the debris and firemen removed her after an hour. Firemen took her to civicrun Rajawadi Hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival.
MLA Dilip Lande said there is a proposal to construct a new toilet there. “Workers had demolished half of the structure used by men but left the remaining part following objections from residents. BMC should have barricaded the area. I did not find any board warning residents not to use the toilet, although BMC claimed it put up a board,” he said. The partition between men-women sections was imbalanced.