A 40-year-old woman was charred to death after a fire broke out at a paper roll manufacturing factory in Navi Mumbai town of Maharashtra`s Thane district, a fire official said on Monday.

The blaze erupted at the factory located in Airoli area at around 3.30 pm on Saturday and destroyed the unit, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation`s divisional fire officer Purushottam Jadhav said.