An eight-year-old boy was killed and a woman injured, when the plaster from the ceiling of their home fell on them in the western suburb of Goregaon here in the early hours of Friday, a civic official said.

The incident took place in one of the apartments in New Aman building in Goregaon (west) around 5.30 am, the official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. The boy and a 36-year-old woman had sustained injuries in the incident, and were rushed to civic-run Cooper Hospital, he said.