Two men injured in gas explosion

Two men were injured in a gas explosion in an apartment in Tai Po yesterday. The blast happened in the first-floor flat of a three-storey block in Ting Kok Road about 8.30am when a technician, 45, was trying to find the source of a gas leak. Both he and the tenant, 51, were injured by flying debris in the blast whch also blew a window out of the flat, smashed a kitchen door and a glass door to a balcony.