An elderly couple were killed today in an LPG cylinder explosion at their house in Viswakarma area in the district, police said.
Jagdish Nayak and his wife Dhapu Devi, both in their 60s, were residents of in Akeda village.
The woman was a cancer patient and bed ridden.
Her husband Jagdish was working in the kitchen early in the morning when the cylinder exploded. Both of them were burnt alive, police said.
The bodies were shifted to a hospital for postmortem, they said.
