The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to the family of an Irishman killed in an explosion 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.

Another person was also killed while several other people were hurt.

Originally posted at 21.03, 3rd February