A 70-year-old woman and her daughter-in-law were injured after a gas leak led to a fire in their apartment in Mumbra town of Maharashtra's Thane district on Friday, an official said.

The blaze erupted in an apartment on the 23rd floor of a housing complex in Shil Phata area in the afternoon hours, said Santosh Kadam, chief of the regional disaster management cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation.