A 26-year-old teacher, Jenel Boniface Fernandes, died on Friday afternoon in a lift accident in St Mary’s English High School at Chincholi Bunder in Malad.

Fernandes, a Vasai resident, was on the sixth floor and had just finished teaching a class minutes before the incident. After pressing the lift button, intending to go the second floor, she headed back to the classroom to inform the teacher about something.