A 27-year-old BJP worker died on Saturday when a country bomb which he was allegedly making exploded at his residence in Koothuparambu in Kerala's Kannur district, police said.

Deekshit who was alone in the house was seriously injured in the blast and died while being rushed to a hospital, they said.

The roof of the house where he was "making" the bomb was destroyed in the blast, they further added.