WYATT, Mo. — A gas explosion Monday at a southeast Missouri home killed one person and injured nine others, authorities said.
The explosion happened around 7 a.m. in Wyatt, a town of about 280 people that’s roughly 130 miles south of St. Louis, Capt. Barry Morgan with the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office, said. Authorities were trying to determine whether a water heater or stove were to blame, he said.
He identified the person killed only as a man in his mid-20s. Nine other people — the youngest just 6 months old — had serious or critical burn injuries. Several were flown to hospitals in St. Louis and Memphis, Tennessee.
“That is a ton of people in a house,†he said. “So that’s what we’re trying to determine, why there were so many people in there, because when I arrived on scene, it was just there was victims lying everywhere, badly burned.â€
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The garage of a neighboring home also caught fire, but no one inside that structure was hurt, Morgan said.
The State Fire Marshal and a state propane commission were investigating.
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