A woman was killed and two other persons were injured when a portion of an adjacent house collapsed on their residence in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district on Sunday morning, civic officials said.

The incident took place around 6 am. The balcony of a single-storey house crashed on a house located next to it near a mosque, Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant said.