A 19-year old was killed while two including a child suffered injuries following a powerful LPG cylinder blast in a residential house in Qudara village of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday.

An official said that the LPG cylinder blast which took place in the residential house left one person dead and two persons injured.

He said that the injured identified as Mohd iqbal son of Mohd shafi and a minor boy have shifted to the district hospital Bandipora for treatment.

The official identified the deceased as Sajad Ahmad khan son of Feroz Ahmad Khan a resident of Kudara Bandipora whose body has been shifted to hospital for conducting legal medical formalities.