Man blows up part of house while chasing fly

A man has blown up part of his house in France while trying to swat a fly.

The man, who is in his 80s, was about to eat dinner when he became irritated by a fly that was flying around him.

He picked up an electric racket designed to kill insects and started hitting it, but a gas canister was leaking at his home in Dordogne.

A reaction between the uproar and the gas caused an explosion that destroyed the kitchen and partially damaged the roof of the house in the village of Parcoul-Chenaud.

According to local media, the anonymous man had a kind of escape, suffering only a burn on his hand.

Since then, he has checked into a local camp while his family repairs the house.