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“This area must be evacuated now. This area must be evacuated now. If you can hear this message, evacuate now,” was the call in a recording of the motorhome police heard, according to Nashville Police Chief John Drake. .
According to Drake, he was also warned that “a bomb would detonate in 15 minutes.”
Around the same time, the police received an alarm for shots in the same area where the motorhome was parked. Once there, the police patrol that responded to the gun alarm in the bomb unit called.
But before the bomb squad arrived, the caravan exploded. Three people were taken to hospital with minor injuries. The explosion caused the destruction of other vehicles, the breaking of windows and the fall of trees in the street.
“We believe the explosion was an intentional act,” Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said.
The circumstances suggest that the police could have been a potential target, according to Andrew McCabe, a former deputy head of the FBI. He tells CNN that an explosion of this magnitude could be investigated as an act of terrorism.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been informed of the incident, which is being investigated by the police, the FBI and the ATF authority.
The explosion occurred at 6.30 a.m. local time. Nashville Mayor John Cooper says the city was “lucky” that it happened during Christmas when few people were out.
It is unfortunate, but if it had been any other morning it would have been a much worse event, he says.
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