Palm Springs – A sustained bomb explosion that the authorities believe it was “an intentional act of violence” outside a fertility clinic left a dead person with additional injuries reported in Palm Springs on Saturday.
According to the reports, the explosion felt more than two miles away and severely damaged the clinic and several other buildings. The incident occurred just before 11 in the morning at North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive, Palm Springs officials said.
The photos of the scene showed extensive damage to the US reproduction centers, a fertility clinic and an in vitro fertilization laboratory on the other side of the Desert Regional Medical Center. An office building two blocks from the explosion had its exploited windows as well as Denny’s five blocks.
Palm Springs officials said the explosion came from inside or near a car parked in the Indian cannon outside the clinic.
“The explosion seems to be an intentional act of violence,” said Palm Springs Fire Chief Paul Alvarado.
Alvarado said a person was killed and his identity was unknown. ABC-TV 7 reported that at least five people were injured.
Numerous law application agencies were on stage, including the Palm Springs police, the FBI and the Federal Office of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Researchers, bomb technicians and a FBI evidence response team were being deployed, the agency said in a statement on X.
In mid -half, emergency officials had blocked roads near the explosion and white police trucks were parked in front of the building.
A witness told the desert Sun Newpaper that he saw parts of the body and car parts when he walked fits the clinic five minutes after the explosion.
American Reproductive Centers is the “Complete Service Fertility Center for Coachella Valley and the only full service fertility laboratory”, led by the doctor certified by the Maher A. Abdallah Board, according to its website.
Abdallah told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that all his staff was safe and counted.
“Thank God today was a day we don’t have patients,” said Abdallah.
The explosion damaged the office space of the practice, where he consults with the patients, but left the IVF laboratory and all the embryos stored unharmed there, Abdallah said to the service of Wire.
The clinic said it would be open and completely operational on Monday in a statement published on Facebook.
Governor Gavin Newsom said in a publication on social networks that his office had been informed about the explosion and “is coordinating with local and federal authorities to support the answer.”
