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Wednesday 21 March 2018

New blast sends bombing investigators to Texas FedEx center

package had been sent Lankford said. "But it also in-
from Austin and was ad- creases the likelihood that
dressed to a home in Aus- he would make a mistake."
tin, Texas Attorney General Authorities have not iden-
Ken Paxton said. tified the two men who
In a statement, FedEx of- were hurt Sunday, saying
ficials said the same per- only that they are in their
son responsible for sending 20s and white. But William
the package also shipped Grote told The Associated
a second parcel that has Press on Monday that his
been secured and turned grandson was one of them
over to law enforcement. and that he had what ap-
A company spokeswoman peared to be nails embed-
refused to say if that sec- ded in his knees.
ond package might have On the night of the bomb-
been linked to the one re- ing, one of the victims
ported near the airport. was riding a bike in the
There was no immediate street and the other was
word about whether that on a sidewalk when they
package contained explo- hit a tripwire that he said
sives. knocked "them both off
The blast came less than their feet."
two days after another "It was so dark they couldn't
bombing wounded two tell, and they tripped," he
An employee wrapped in a blanket talks to a police officer after she was evacuated at a FedEx men Sunday night in a qui- said. "They didn't see it. It
distribution center where a package exploded, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Schertz, Texas. Au-
thorities believe the package bomb is linked to the recent string of Austin bombings. et Austin neighborhood. It was a wire. And it blew up."
(AP Photo/Eric Gay) was triggered by a nearly Grote said his son, who lives
invisible tripwire, suggesting about 100 yards (90 me-
By PAUL J. WEBER killed two people and bad- around 1 a.m. at a FedEx a "higher level of sophisti- ters) from the blast, heard
WILL WEISSERT ly wounded four others. facility in Schertz, which is cation" than agents saw in the explosion and raced
Associated Press Hours after the explosion, just northeast of San Anto- three package bombs left outside to find both of the
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In- police sent a bomb squad nio and about 60 miles (95 on doorsteps, according to young men bleeding pro-
vestigators pursuing a sus- to a FedEx facility out- kilometers) southwest of Fred Milanowski, the agent fusely.
pected serial bomber in side Austin's main airport Austin. in charge of the Houston The presence of a tripwire
the Texas capital shifted to check on a suspicious "It would be silly for us not division of the Bureau of Al- was a departure from the
their attention Tuesday to a package that was report- to admit that we suspect cohol, Tobacco, Firearms first three bombings, which
FedEx shipping center near ed shortly before sunrise. it's related" to the other and Explosives. involved parcels left on
San Antonio where a pack- Investigators also closed off four Austin bombings since A criminologist at the Uni- doorsteps that detonated
age exploded on a con- an Austin-area FedEx store March 2, FBI agent Mi- versity of Alabama said if a when moved or opened.
veyor belt in the middle of where they believe the chelle Lee said. She did not single perpetrator is behind In Washington, President
the night and caused mi- bomb that exploded was have details about the size, the blasts, changing the Donald Trump said the as-
nor injuries to a worker. shipped to the distribution weight or description of the means of delivery increas- sailant behind the bomb-
Although the latest blast center. Authorities roped package. es the bomber's chance of ing is "very sick."
did not inflict serious harm, off a large area around the One worker reported ring- getting caught. During an Oval Office
it added to the widen- shopping center in the en- ing in her ears. She was "I think it would suggest meeting Tuesday with Sau-
ing fear of more strikes like clave of Sunset Valley. treated at the scene. that the bomber is trying to di Arabia's Crown Prince
those that have already The explosion happened Before it exploded, the stay unpredictable," Adam Mohammed bin Salman,
Trump described the situa-
Bar owner: tion as "terrible."
"This is obviously a very sick
US student was not drunk before disappearance individual or individuals,"
and authorities are "work-
ing to get to the bottom of
Associated Press the base of a colonial-era parents had been to the was found. it."
HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) fort in a park on the island bar on Sunday to look Dombroski was a member Police repeated prior warn-
— A Bermuda bar owner territory. through hours of closed-cir- of the rugby team at Saint ings about not touching un-
says a Pennsylvania student Frank Arnold, owner of the cuit television footage. Joseph's University in Phila- expected packages and
did not appear to be drunk Dog House bar, says Dom- A cause of death has not delphia and had come to urged people to be wary
before he disappeared. broski "was not sober, but been released and forensic Bermuda to compete in a of any stray object left in
Mark Dombroski, 19, was he was not intoxicated." experts were still processing tournament. public, especially ones with
found dead Monday at He says that Dombroski's the scene where his body q protruding wires.q