A 79-year-old woman was allegedly killed by robbers at her residence at Matunga in Central Mumbai, police said on Wednesday. The incident came to light on Tuesday night when somebody spotted Vasanta Lakshminarayan lying motionless in her ground floor residence in the BMC building, a police official said.

It seems Lakshminarayan tried to fend off robbers, who strangulated the woman using her stole, he added. The robbers decamped with gold ornaments of Lakshminarayan, the official said.