HEFEI, March 16 -- Two people were killed and another three were injured in a blast in east China's Anhui Province on Friday, local authorities said.

As of 10 a.m. Friday, a villager from Jindu village in Congyang county interrupted an on-going meeting of the village committee and detonated the explosive that tied on himself.

The injured people have been hospitalized, and the case is under police investigation.