Two women have died of snake bites in separate incidents in Maharashtra's Thane district, according to police statement on Thursday, June 5. 

A snake bit Rani Harishchandra Nimse, a 19-year-old engineering student, while she was asleep at her home in Alyani village on Wednesday afternoon, an official from Shahapur police station said, reported news agency PTI. 

"She was immediately taken to a rural hospital in Shahapur for treatment. As her condition worsened, she was referred to the Thane Civil Hospital, but she succumbed on the way to the medical facility," the official said, reported PTI.