ST. LOUIS—A house explosion and resulting fire north of St. Louis killed at least one person and critically injured several others early Friday, authorities said.
The explosion happened at around 1:20 a.m. in northern St. Louis County just west of Spanish Lake, the county police said in a news release. Officers and firefighters who were called to the scene found the house in flames and a person outside it who had died from injuries sustained in the fire, police said.
Four other people were taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Neighbors reported hearing the explosion and feeling their houses shake from the blast. Debris littered neighborhood lawns as firefighters worked to knock down the flames….