A 50-year-old man died, while two women were injured when a portion of a shanty collapsed on them in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, a civic official said.

The incident took place around 10 am at Ajmi Nagar, where a part of the balcony of a ground-plus-one structure collapsed, said Santosh Kadam, the chief of the Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell. The victim identified as Rajak died on the spot, while two unidentified women sustained injuries and were rushed to a nearby hospital, the official said.