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| A car explosion occurred on the 25th (local time) in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, USA. © Reuters = News 1 |
US investigative authorities are accelerating the investigation by searching the home of a suspect in a vehicle explosion in Nashville, Tennessee on the 25th (local time).
According to CNN and others, FBi investigators were issued a search warrant from the court on the 26th and searched a house in Antioch, about 19 kilometers southeast of Nashville. This house is believed to be the home of the suspect.
It is said that investigators obtained information related to the house from the bombed vehicle, and put an explosives disposal team on the site before full-scale internal search and evidence collection in preparation for the possibility that explosives were installed in the house. However, the FBI explained that “no one was arrested in the process.”
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| FBI investigators are searching a house in Antioch, a town near Nashville, Tennessee on the 26th (local time). © AFP=News1 |
Prior to this, in downtown Nashville, a vehicle exploded around 6:30 am on the 25th of Christmas. In the explosion, three vehicles built nearby were burnt down and about 40 buildings were damaged. Three people were injured, and human remains were found inside the explosive vehicle.
At the time of the explosion, the police were on the way to the scene after receiving a report of a shooting in a nearby area.
From around 6:15 am on the day of the incident, a warning message from the explosive vehicle, saying, “An explosion is happening now. There is a bomb. The bomb is in this car and will explode soon” is said to have been issued every minute.
After hearing this message, the police urgently evacuated nearby residents to reduce human damage, but in the process, one policeman was reportedly damaged by the sound of an explosion, and the other was reportedly injured due to an explosion shock.
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| On the 25th (local time), the window of a nearby building was broken by the impact of a vehicle explosion in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. © AFP=News1 |
In this regard, Tennessee Governor Billy said after a visit to the crime scene that it was “a miracle that the residents did not die,” and that he requested the federal government to declare a state of emergency to President Donald Trump for assistance in recovering the damage.
For the investigation of this case, the FBI dispatched up to 250 investigators and inspectors to the local area to collect 500 pieces of artifacts. However, no other explosives were found on site.
Investigation authorities believe that the suspect in this case killed himself by exploding a bomb installed in the vehicle and is investigating the exact process.