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- The incident is likely connected to three other terror attacks in which two people are dead and four injured.
- As at a quarter past ten, this morning packages in and out of the facility were in limbo as vehicles were in gridlock – Fire Department.
The San Antonio Texas Fire Department says a package bomb bound for Austin has exploded at a FedEx distribution center in Schertz, Texas, hurting 1 person, a FedEx employee who apparently suffered a non-life-threatening “percussion-type” injury from the blast, reports ABC News.
The report said FBI and ATF are at the scene. Federal agents say this package is likely linked to attacks by what they believe is a serial bomber. The package exploded shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
The FBI tells CBS News multiple FBI agents and local law enforcement are on the scene.
The agency couldn’t confirm reports that the package may have contained nails and shrapnel.
According to a Reuters account, one employee was injured when the package containing nails and shrapnel that was bound for Austin, Texas, exploded at a Texas FedEx facility, the local fire department confirmed.
The package exploded shortly after midnight local time at a distribution facility in Schertz, Texas, outside of San Antonio, about 65 miles south of Austin, the San Antonio Fire Department said in a Tweet.
CBS affiliate KENS received a call from one woman whose husband works at the facility. She told the station that he was not being allowed to leave.
The blast comes as authorities search for answers to a series of explosions that have rattled Austin.
Police and federal agents said that the blast Sunday night triggered along a street by a nearly invisible tripwire suggests a “higher level of sophistication” than they have seen before in three early package bombs left on doorsteps, and means the carnage is now random, rather than targeted at someone in particular.
Two people are dead and four injured, and authorities don’t appear closer to making any arrests in the four bombings that have rocked the capital city.
- With reports from ABC NEWS and REUTERS
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