Thane: A woman and her four-month-old child were crushed to death and ten others injured when a tree fell on their huts in Bhiwandi town of Thane district, fire officials said.

The banyan tree, which was about a century old, fell on 3-4 huts in a slum colony at Khadiput locality of Bharat Nagar on Bhiwandi outskirts at around 9.30 PM yesterday, Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation's sub-station fire officer Rajesh Pawar said today.