The explosion on Christmas morning in downtown Nashville damaged dozens of businesses. Nashville police distributed this photo of the motorhome that later exploded in the city and asked the public for information. In this photo from the Twitter page of the Nashville Fire Department, bricks and piece of a crosswalk sign are seen on 2nd avenue North after a motorhome exploded in Nashville, Tennessee. In this photo from the Twitter page of the Nashville Fire Department, damage is seen on a street after the explosion. Authorities searched a house in the Nashville area on Saturday as they probed the large blast that ripped through the downtown of the southern US city on Christmas morning, injuring several people and damaging dozens of buildings. The operation in Antioch came as US media reports said a 63-year-old “person of interest” had been identified in connection with the explosion, which came from a parked motorhome that blared a warning minutes before it blew up. (…) Media reports said neighbors had previously spotted a motorhome outside the residence that was being searched Saturday by authorities, and that it appeared to be similar to the one that exploded in Nashville. No one has been arrested, but “information developed during the course of the investigation led us to this address”, an FBI spokesman said in an interview with the Nashville Tennessean newspaper outside the home being searched. At a separate press conference, authorities declined to provide details or discuss the reports of a person identified.
via yahoo: Investigators search home in Nashville bomb probe
siehe auch: Wohnmobil explodiert in #Nashville „Es sieht aus, als ob eine #Bombe explodiert wäre“. Mindestens drei Menschen werden bei der vorsätzlichen Explosion im US-Bundesstaat Tennessee verletzt. Offenbar gab es kurz vorher eine Warnung für Anwohner. Das Zentrum der Stadt Nashville im US-Bundesstaat Tennessee ist am Freitag von der vorsätzlichen Explosion eines Wohnmobils erschüttert worden. Man gehe von einer vorsätzlichen Tat aus, teilte die örtliche Polizei auf Twitter mit. Mindestens drei Menschen wurden leicht verletzt, sie wurden ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert. Kurz vor der Detonation gab es offenbar eine Warnung für die Anwohner. Die Explosion ließ Fensterscheiben zerspringen und Wasserleitungen platzen, umliegende Gebäude waren geschwärzt und die Fahrbahn von Ästen und Glassplittern übersät. Die Explosion ereignete sich um 06.30 Uhr Ortszeit (13.30 Uhr MEZ) und war noch mehrere Straßenblocks entfernt zu spüren.