A woman and a minor girl drowned after falling into an abandoned well in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday evening in Nehroli village of Wada taluka when the victims went to the well to wash clothes, he said.

When they did not return home till late night, their family members carried out a search. Later, they found clothes lying near the well and the bodies floating in the water body, the official from Wada police station said.