Emergency crews have cordoned off a Gooodwill in south Austin after a package reportedly exploded Tuesday evening, however, the Austin Police Department says it does not appear the incident is related to previous bombings.
The Austin Fire Department says the call came in at 7 p.m. at the Goodwill located at 9801 Brodie Ln., which is just north of Slaughter Lane.
Austin-Travis County EMS says a man in his 30s was taken to the hospital with serious but non life-threatening injuries.
In a tweet at 8:05 p.m., APD said the items inside the package was not a bomb but rather “an incendiary device” and that it wasn’t a “package explosion.”
#UPDATE: There was no package explosion in the 9800 block of Brodie Ln. Items inside package was not a bomb, rather an incendiary device. At this time, we have no reason to believe this incident is related to previous package bombs. #Breaking #packagebombmurders— Austin Police Dept (@Austin_Police) March 21, 2018
Crews have set up a perimeter around the area.
A spokesperson for Goodwill of Central Texas says they can’t say right now if the injured person was an employee or not. The store is regularly open until 9 p.m.
The location of the possible explosion is approximately 3.5 miles due south on Brodie Lane from the FedEx shipping store that authorities say the serial bomber used to ship two recent packages from. If this is connected to the serial bomber, this will be the sixth bombing since March 2. Early Tuesday morning, a package moving through the FedEx ground sorting center in Schertz exploded.
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