Irishman killed in Perth explosion named

The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to a Dublin family after the death of an Irishman in Australia.

30-year-old Alan Cummins, who was from Firhouse, was killed in an explosion at a shopping centre in a Perth suburb yesterday.

It is reported an electrical transformer blew up at the Galleria Shopping Centre in Morley.

Cummins was one of two people killed in the incident, while several others were hurt.