A 3.5-year-old girl died after she fell from the balcony of her 7th-floor home at a plush Vasai society around 7 am on Friday. The child’s mother had gone down to help her other daughter board her school bus at the time of the accident. Her father is in Singapore on a temporary posting, said the police.
  
The kid, Shreya Mahajan, lived with her family at Regency Villa, Heritage City, Vasai West. Their neighbour Sandeep Shirwaley said, “Shreya was sleeping when her mother decided to drop her elder daughter, who is seven years old, to board the school bus at the society gate. After getting up, Shreya was playing with a smartphone on the balcony. The smartphone slipped from her tiny hand and fell to the ground.”

The neighbour said the balcony doesn’t have a safety grille. “To see the smartphone, Shreya climbed onto the iron railing, which is about 4 ft tall, but lost her grip and plunged straight to the ground,” Shirawley told mid-day.