A 40-year-old TB patient was found dead in Kandivli (East) after she jumped off the 13th floor of her residential building on Sunday morning. The deceased had been suffering from tuberculosis for the past two years, but finally succumbed to depression and ended her life, said her family and the police.

She is survived by her husband and two children a 14-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter, who were all sleeping when she jumped at 5.45 am yesterday. The deceased, identified as Kausalya Vijay Deshmukh, was a resident of Sagar residential society in Hanuman Nagar. The Samta Nagar police did not find a suicide note.