Fort Smith Police Investigating Explosion
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Fort Smith police are investigating an
explosion outside a home that sent a woman to the hospital with
severe leg injuries.
Police said the woman found the device in front of a vacant
home. The woman, who police did NOT identify, apparently was taking
the device across the street to a friend`s house when it detonated.
Police Sergeant Jarrard Copeland says officers searched the
neighborhood for other suspicious packages or devices.
The police, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives are on the scene and closed off the area around the
home. Copeland says Arkansas State Police and Springdale police
could be involved, too, because they have bombs squads.
Copeland said the woman is the caretaker of the vacant
residence.
