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Explosion rocks downtown Nashville in what police call 'intentional' act

The Washington Post logo The Washington Post 25/12/2020 16:17:25 Derek Hawkins, Paulina Firozi
a traffic light on a city street covered in snow: Emergency personnel work at the scene of an explosion in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Friday, Dec. 25, 2020. Buildings shook in the immediate area and beyond after a loud boom was heard early Christmas morning.(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) © Mark Humphrey/APEmergency personnel work at the scene of an explosion in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Friday, Dec. 25, 2020. Buildings shook in the immediate area and beyond after a loud boom was heard early Christmas morning.(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Police say an explosion in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning that shattered storefronts and left at least three people hospitalized with noncritical injuries "appears to have been an intentional act."


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Authorities were called to the area around 6 a.m. local time to respond to a report of a suspicious vehicle outside the AT&T office building, the tallest skyscraper in the state, Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson Don Aaron said in a morning news conference.

After checking out the vehicle, the officer who responded "had reason to call our hazardous devices unit," Aaron said.

The blast went off around 6:30 a.m. local time, according to police, smashing windows, signs and garage doors along a block in the city's Arts District and sending a plume of bright orange flames into the sky.

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