An elderly woman was killed when a fire broke out in a residential high-rise in Kurla on Wednesday, the BMC Disaster Control said.
The fire was noticed around 7 a.m. in Building No. 7-C in the Kohinoor City complex in Kurla West.
Many people were stranded in the upper floors owing to pocket fires from the 4-10 floors and were guided to the building terrace.
Teams of firefighters are battling the conflagration even as the people on the terrace were rescued safely.
Later the firefighters rushed one seriously injured senior citizen — Shakuntala Ramani, 70, to Rajawadi Hospital where she was declared dead on admission.
Further details are awaited.
