Footage of the moment US house is destroyed in gas blast

Two people have been seriously injured in an explosion at a house in the US state of New Jersey.

A police spokesman, Captain Tom Dellane of Stafford Police Department, said officials were investigating reports of a gas leak, when an entire building blew up.

Fifteen people were hurt in the blast, two of them critically - and several other nearby buildings were also damaged.

The footage was filmed on the dashboard camera of a police cruiser parked nearby.