At least three people have been killed after a “horrific incident” at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility, the US Attorney general has said. <\/p>\n
There was an explosion at the Biscailuz Center Academy Training in east LA, according to Sky’s partner NBC.<\/p>\n
The incident was reported at around 7.30am local time (3.30pm UK time).<\/p>\n
Attorney general Pam Bondi wrote on X: “I just spoke to @USAttyEssayli about what appears to be a horrific incident that killed at least three at a law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
“Our federal agents are at the scene and we are working to learn more.”<\/p>\n
Aerial footage from local channel KABC-TV suggests the explosion happened in a parking lot filled with sheriff patrol cars and box trucks.<\/p>\n
The attorney general said in a follow-up post that agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are “on the ground to support”.<\/p>\n
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, said the LAPD bomb squad has also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n
“The thoughts of all Angelenos are with all of those impacted by this blast,” she said on social media.<\/p>\n
California<\/a><\/strong> Governor Gavin Newsom has been briefed on the incident, his press office said in a post on X.<\/p>\n “The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is in contact with the Sheriff’s Department and closely monitoring the situation, and has offered full state assistance,” it added.<\/p>\n This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/p>\n Please refresh the page for the latest version.<\/p>\n You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the Sky News app<\/strong><\/a>. You can also follow us on WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a> and subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a> to keep up with the latest news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least three people have been killed after a “horrific incident” at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-272529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114875290292467604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}