
At least three people were hospitalized after the explosion of the car in the American city of Nashville, Tennessi, reports CNN. The victims received easy injuries and are in a stable state.
Christmas on the morning of December 25, at 6:30 local time (15:30 Moscow time), in the center of Nashville exploded a house on wheels - a van in which you can live. Before that, local residents heard shots. After that, a “computerized” female voice sounded from the parked van, warning that the car would explode. The voice was counted before the explosion, said a local resident of Betsy Williams. First, the phrase “this car will explode in 15 minutes” sounded, then “this car will explode in 14 minutes” and so on. The record began to sound when the police arrived at the place, ABC News notes . The police evacuated the locals, bypassing their houses.
When the van exploded, at least 41 commercial enterprises located nearby received damage, another building partially collapsed. According to WTVF, the CBS branch, the network of the AT&T telecommunication company stopped working, near the Date Center of which an explosion occurred. Due to the malfunction, the authorities suspended flights from Nashville because of the ongoing problems with communications.
The mayor of Nashville John Cooper and the police called the explosion "intentional." The motives of criminals are still unknown. At the scene of the explosion, human remains were found, reports ABC News. Whose they, it is not known whether they can be identified is unclear. “We found traces of fabrics that can be human remains,” the police confirmed. Whether anyone was in the car at the time of the explosion was completely unclear.
The explosion of the explosion was engaged in the FBI. For any information that will help the case promised a reward of 25.5 thousand dollars. The police spread a photo of the house on wheels, which appeared on the street at 1:22 in the night, that is, almost five hours before the explosion. CNN reported with reference to the source that law enforcement agencies have no information that the Christmas would attack.
Alexander Baklanov