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The FBI and the Nashville Police (Tennessee, USA) investigated this Saturday more than 500 clues related to the explosion of Christmas Day in the city, and they follow the track to “a series of people” for their possible connection the event, which left three minor injuries.
In a press conference in the early afternoon, the federal and local authorities stressed that they have no indications that there may be more “threats of explosion” in the city after the one registered this Friday, when a motorhome with a bomb exploded in the center of the town.
“Nashville is safe,” stressed local police chief John Drake.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is leading the investigation, has cordoned off a large area of downtown where the explosion occurred early Friday, and continued to comb the area more than 24 hours later in search of possible clues. of the person in charge or their reasons.
“It is a mass crime zone, it is a challenge. It is like a giant puzzle that has created a bomb,” said the federal prosecutor for the central district of Tennessee, Don Cochran this Saturday.
The local newspaper The Tennessean and the CBS News chain assured this Saturday that the authorities had identified a possible suspect in the attack, and the first of those media claimed that they had gone to a home or establishment in a southeastern neighborhood of the city.
However, the authorities did not want to confirm that point at the press conference, and only indicated that they have received more than 500 tips from different citizens since this Friday they requested the collaboration of the inhabitants of the city to find those responsible for the event.
“We are investigating a number of people,” said the FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, Doug Korneski, at the press conference.
The event began shortly before 06:00 local time on Friday (12:00 GMT), when the police responded to a call and detected a suspicious vehicle parked in front of a building of the AT&T telecommunications company in the center of the city.
That vehicle had a recording that warned that “a bomb would explode in the next 15 minutes”, so the agents rushed to go knocking on doors in all the buildings to evacuate the neighbors before the explosion occurred.
The blast caused damage to at least 41 buildings in the center of the city, known as the birthplace of country music, and interruptions in Internet and mobile phone service for thousands of people, something that the AT&T company, whose building was affected, I was working this Saturday to solve.
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