A suspected car bomb killed one person, injured another and sent auto parts flying across a rural Nevada town, authorities and neighbors said Thursday.
(FOX)- A spokesman for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office told Fox 5 the bomber was likely killed by one of two explosions outside a home in Panaca, about 110 miles northeast of Las Vegas near the Utah state line.
Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee said another person was treated for an injury that was not believed to be life-threatening. The FBI and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives joined the investigation, he said.
Investigators said other people inside the home escaped before the first explosion. A motive for why the home may have been targeted was not immediately clear.
Dave Free, who lives a block away, said he had broken windows, car parts in his driveway and shrapnel next to his horse feeder. The animals and his grandchildren, who feed the horses, escaped injury.
Panaca began as a Mormon settlement in 1864, before Nevada became a state, and is now home to about 900 people and Lincoln County High School. It bills itself as a tourism gateway to several state parks.