The young electrician who tragically died in hospital several hours after an explosion at a Perth shopping centre has been named as local man Matt Hutchins. The tradesman suffered burns to 80 per cent of his body in the blast at the Galleria Shopping Centre in Morley, about 8 kilometres northeast of Perth's central business district, on Tuesday morning. Hutchins was carrying out electrical maintenance with three colleagues, for a privately owned WA company that services the high voltage electrical industry, when the fatal accident happened. One of his colleagues, a 30-year-old Irish man, died at the scene while the two others are fighting for their lives in hospital.
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Perth man Matt Hutchins died in hospital several hours after the blast
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The explosion happened around 9.30am on Tuesday, in Morley, Perth
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Four men were carrying out electrical maintenance at the shopping centre
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An electricity transformer is thought to have exploded
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Hutchins' colleague, a 30-year-old Irish man, died at the scene
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Two other electricians are fighting for their lives in hospital
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Several people were treated for shock and smoke inhalation at the scene
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'Their clothes were burning and sticking to them,' says witness Jonathan McDonagh
Firefighters cordon off the area around the shopping centre in suburban @placeholder