A BOY of 15 has been killed after a giant explosion feared to have been triggered by detonating electric car batteries was felt up to 20 miles away.
At least 163 were also injured following the huge blast in a customs warehouse near Tashkent Airport in Uzbekistan in the early hours.
Shocking footage shows the explosion at 2.43am local time, which caused damage to hundreds of houses and other buildings over a vast area.
Batteries for electric cars exploded at the airport warehouse, it is understood.
Dozens of ambulances ferries the wounded to hospitals and at least five children suffered wounds from shattered glass.