Egypt's foreign ministry said 10 Egyptian nationals have been severely injured when a cooking gas cylinder blew up in a house in Libya.

Two of those injured in the blast, which took place at an eastern Tripoli district, are in a critical condition, with burns affecting 90 percent of their bodies, the ministry added in a statement Wednesday.

The rest have suffered second-degree burn covering 65-75 percent of their bodies.

The health ministry dispatched ten ambulances to the Egypt-Libya Salloum border crossing to transport the injured for treatment in Egypt.

Libya plunged into civil war following the 2011 toppling and killing of dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Egypt's foreign ministry has repeatedly called on Egyptian nationals to avoid travelling to Libya due to the unstable security conditions in the war-torn country.