Fifty-two-year-old Neelima Kastur, who runs a small home-based chapati business in South Mumbai, had a miraculous escape on Thursday afternoon after a portion of the wall in her decades-old building suddenly collapsed, narrowly missing her. The incident occurred in Shivparvati Krupa, a dilapidated pagdi building in the Girgaon area. The woman was making chapatis at home when chunks of the slab came crashing down.

“I was just a few steps away. If I had been standing there, I don’t know what would have happened. It's the exact spot where I sleep every night. What if this had happened at night while I was sleeping?” she said, her voice shaking.