Civic officials reported the deaths of two women within the past 24 hours due to distinct incidents of ceiling plaster collapses in the Thane and Palghar districts of Maharashtra, stated the report in PTI. 

According to the report, in Thane, a woman lost her life after the ceiling plaster of her residence in a chawl fell on her during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. The Assistant Municipal Commissioner (Kalwa) Subodh Thanekar was quoted as saying that Chandrika Kunju (33) succumbed to her injuries in the hospital she was taken to after the accident.