Police Warn Residents To Stay Home After Latest In String Of Austin Bombings

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo/AP




By PAUL WEBER and WILL WEISSERT | March 19, 2018 7:13 am

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two people were injured in another explosion in Texas’ capital Sunday night, and police are not ruling out a connection to the three previous explosions that detonated earlier this month elsewhere in the city.

The latest blast occurred around 8:30 p.m. in a suburban neighborhood known as Travis Country in southwest Austin — far from the previous three that were all in residential areas in the eastern part of the city — and investigators didn’t immediately confirm what caused it. But police Chief Brian Manley repeated previously issued warnings for residents not to touch any unexpected packages left at their homes.

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He urged people within half a mile to stay in their homes and said authorities would keep the surrounding area blocked off at least until daybreak Monday “given the darkness and size of the area that we want to go in and check.”

“We want to put out the message that we’ve been putting out and that is, not only do not touch any packages or anything that looks like a package, do not even go near it at this time,” Manley said. Because “we have not had an opportunity to look at this blast site to really determine what has happened.”

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[still_one]

1. While it is never good to speculate, from my understanding Austin is one of the more progressive

cities in Texas, and while this insanity could be coming from a deranged lone perpetrator, I wonder in the back of my mind what the odds are that this could be politically motivated from an extremist group?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. They think it was a trip wire this time. There's a very ill or very evil person out there. . . nt

[IronLionZion]

3. You can be killed at home just as easily, unfortunately

don't let the terrorists win.