Washington-SANA
Police sources from Nashville, Tennessee, revealed that the authorities had identified the perpetrator of the Christmas Day explosion in the city center.
The Wall Street Journal quoted US Attorney General Donald Cochran as saying, "We reached the conclusion that a person named Anthony Warner was the bomber and was present when the bomb exploded and was killed at the time."
And local authorities indicated that Warner, 63, was identified through the matching of DNA samples collected at the scene of the accident and the items provided by his family members.
The authorities in Tennessee did not specify the motive behind the bombing, indicating that they could not yet comment on whether the incident was "local terrorism" because they are still trying to determine whether there was the ideology of the bomber that led him to commit his act or not.
It reported that the perpetrator’s mobile home, which was parked on a street in the largest city in Tennessee, exploded at dawn last Friday, moments after the police dealt with reports of gunfire in the area and noticed the mobile home and heard an automated message issued by him warning of a bomb and its detonation after 15 minutes. .
The blast injured three people and damaged buildings at the site, including a communications center belonging to AT&T, which led to the disruption of mobile phone, internet and television services in the center of the state and some areas in four other states.
