Palm Springs, California (Agencies): At least one person is dead and four others injured in a Palm Springs, California, explosion outside a fertility clinic, Akil Davis, the FBI’s assistant director in charge of Los Angeles’ field office, said Saturday.
The FBI is still working to confirm the identity of the person who died, Davis said at a Saturday news conference. He described the incident as “one of the largest bombing investigations we’ve had in Southern California.”
“Make no mistake, this is an intentional act of terrorism,” he added, saying the FBI believes the clinic was targeted. The agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is working alongside the Palm Springs Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Davis said.
The FBI said they “have a person of interest in this investigation, but we are not actively out searching for a suspect.”
Law enforcement investigating the Palm Springs explosion currently believe the deceased individual was likely responsible for the explosion, a law enforcement source told CNN. The source stressed investigators are still working to positively identify the person.
The blast took place outside American Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs, an upscale city around 100 miles from Los Angeles. Videos from the scene show plumes of smoke, blown out windows on nearby buildings, and sirens sounding off.
A house in the city of Twentynine Palms, about 30 miles northeast of Palm Springs, was being investigated as possibly connected to the fertility clinic explosion.