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Nashville Blast Investigation Leads US Agents to Suburban Home

Reuters

   NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - Federal agents investigating the explosion of a
   motor home in Nashville were searching a two-story suburban house
   Saturday for clues to the blast, which injured three people in the
   heart of America's country music capital on Christmas Day.

   Federal agents were also trying to identify apparent human remains
   found near the exploded vehicle.

   The motor home, parked on a downtown street of the Southern U.S. state
   of Tennessee's largest city, exploded at dawn Friday, moments after
   police responded to reports of gunfire noticed it and heard an
   automated message emanating from the vehicle warning of a bomb.

   The blast destroyed several vehicles, damaged more than 40 businesses
   and left a trail of glass from shattered windows.

   Following up on what they said were more than 500 leads, local police
   and agents from the FBI and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
   and Explosives (ATF) were searching a two-story, red-brick house on
   Bakertown Road in Antioch, Tennessee, 18 kilometers southeast of
   Nashville, paying particular attention to its basement, according to a
   Reuters witness.

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