One employee was injured as a package with nails and shrapnel bound for Austin, Texas exploded at the FedEx facility on Tuesday, according to the local fire department.
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According to the ABC News service, the incident took place at a FedEx distribution facility in Schertz, Texas, just after midnight. The employee who was injured was not hospitalized.
According to schertz pd
— GENE DE LA CRUZ (@gene78577) March 20, 2018
A medium sized package exploded on a conveyer track with metal shrapnel and nails at the fedex ground processing plant in schertz. One person injured from the concussion of of the detonation of the package. #kens5eyewitness pic.twitter.com/uGcl1NddsF
About to go live at 5:30a on @KENS5 about this FedEx package explosion here in #Schertz, then I'll be live again on twitter with the latest there too. #kens5eyewitness pic.twitter.com/6gAHFtgSTT
— Charlie Cooper (@CharlieKENS5) March 20, 2018
FBI investigators and a bomb squad were reported to come to the scene. No connection has yet been established between the incident and the recent string of explosions in Texas that began on March 2 and already claimed lives of two people.
FBI and several other law enforcement agencies in Schertz investigating an explosion that happened at a FedEx Ground https://t.co/kOnsKIa1XJ
— Charlie Cooper (@CharlieKENS5) March 20, 2018
Late on Monday, two bicyclists were hospitalized with serious but not life-threatening wounds after a similar explosion in Austin which was set off by a tripwire.
On Monday, Police Chief Brian Manley said that investigators believed the same serial bomber was behind four explosions that went off this month in the city of Austin, Texas.
