At least two people were killed and three others sustained serious injuries in an explosion in a house at Kukudakhandi village under the Berhampur Sadar police station in Ganjam district on Monday.
The injured were admitted to the MKCG Medical College Hospital here. However, the cause of the blast was yet to be ascertained.
According to reports, the explosion took place in the morning. Its intensity was so powerful that while one person died on the spot, four others sustained serious injuries.
They were immediately shifted to the hospital, where doctors declared one of them as brought dead. According to locals, the accident might have occurred due to stone blasting in a crusher unit in the vicinity of the house or due to an explosion of an LPG cylinder in the house.
Fellow villagers demanded that the family of the injured and dead be compensated by the district administration. Later, the Sadar police reached the spot and started an investigation.