Two Massachusetts women were fatally injured in a camper explosion after they lit a candle to fight off an odor investigators believe was from a propane leak, officials said.

The explosion at Powder Horn Campground happened around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. Emergency responders arrived to find the women with “severe burn injuries,” State Police said.

They were taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where they died Sunday, officials said.

Authorities identified the women as Alesia Ventura-Large, 58, of Marlborough, and Nancy Pilsch, 57, of Leominster.

Pilsch was visiting her friend, Ventura-Large, whose family owned the camper, Maine Fire Marshal Shawn Esler said at a news conference Monday, according to video by WGME-TV . Esler said Pilsch was a couple of days shy of her 58th birthd

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