The person in charge of an attack targeting a fertility clinic in southern California on Saturday published coherent writings online before the explosion that investigators deal with them as terrorist act, according to the law enforcement official.
The official, who was not allowed to discuss the details of the attack and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the suspect, who died in the explosion that tore the clinic and shook the city of Palm Springs in California.
“This is not a mistake: this is a intentional terrorist act,” Akil Davis, head of the FBI office in Los Angeles, told an evening press conference.
The authorities were still working to collect the motive and build the chronology of the events that led to the attack. Although the FBI did not say how the explosion was terrorism, the writings that left behind, as the suspect informed the belief that he should not fill the world, and it seems that he sheds light on the state of the mind and helps explain the thesis of the investigators that the attack was targeted and intentional.
The authorities did not issue the identity of the person who is believed to be responsible but believed that the individual died in the car explosion. Mr. Davis said that the investigators were not looking for anyone else.
Four others were injured, but the details of the severity of their injuries were not shared.
A burning vehicle was seen in the car park behind the clinic after the explosion, which was on the roof of the building, spraying the debris through a five -lax road, and shattered windows in companies away. The clinic was closed on the weekend, and the AP doctor told its employees safe.
Destroy the explosion of the American fertility clinic for reproductive centers, which is located in a one -storey building along a street of five lanes lined with palm trees.
Dr. Maher Abdullah, who is leading the clinic, told AP in an interview on the phone that the explosion has harmed the space of the practice office, as it is consulting with patients. IVF Laboratory in the clinic and fetus stored outside the site and was not damaged.
Dr. Abdullah said: “Praise be to God today, it happened for a day that we do not have sick.”
Palm Springs mayor Pro Tim Naomi Soto called the clinic to be “the place of hope.”
She said: “This is a building that people go to start or expand their families.” “We recognize their pain and interest throughout society for patients and employees.”
Renault Williams said he was talking to customers at a hotel restaurant that helps slightly more than one block when he heard a huge mutation. Mr. Williams said everything shook, ran to the scene to find out if anyone needed help.
Mr. Williams covered his nose with his shirt smelling plastic and rubber. He said he saw a “bombed” building on the street, with bricks and debris spread everywhere, and he discovered a front axis of the car in the car park.
Mr. Williams, who ran to the building, said that this is the only car in this car, which faced the building, and contacted and retracted the meter to see if anyone was inside. He did not hear a response and no one saw behind the meter.
Mr. Williams and then ran around checking the other buildings. Multiple windows were also detonated from the adjacent store. He said that once the authorities arrived, Mr. Williams returned to the hotel.
Stephen Michael Chocke was preparing to turn into a hospital across the street from the clinic when she felt and heard a huge boom while tearing the building, and sent a large column of black smoke in the air. He does not know what happened, as he got out of his car to escape from the scene. The glass was all over the Earth.
He said: “I got out of my car and then people started screaming, and there were bloody people, and there was glass everywhere.”
Palm Springs, about two hours away, is famous for East Los Angeles, for high -end resorts, golf courses and a history of celebrities.
The Trump administration condemned the attack.
“The Trump administration realizes that women and mothers are the heartbeat,” Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi said in a statement. “Violence against fertility clinic is not forgiven.”
This story was reported by Associated Press.
Journalists in Associated Press Sejal Jovindaro and Cathlein Ronane contributed.
