A 51-year-old domestic help died on Monday after her leg got trapped in the gap between the elevator and the third floor door of a multi-storey building in the Naval base area of Colaba. Police said she was trapped for 30 minutes. A defence spokesperson said the deceased Arti Dashrat Pardeshi, who worked at the Naval residential colony in Colaba, accidentally got trapped in the lift shaft between two floors of Vijaya Apartment at RC Church.

"Pardeshi was going out for walk with her owner's pet dog when she got trapped on the third floor of the building's elevator. The dog is safe," an officer from Cuffe Parade police station said.