Man suspected of having committed an explosion in Nashville died on the spot

US authorities have identified the suspect of blowing up a trailer that caused dramatic damage in the southern city center of Nashville, Tennessee on Christmas Day, and confirmed he was killed in the event .

“We have concluded that an individual named Anthony Warner is the attacker, was present when the bomb went off and was killed in the blast,” US Attorney Don Cochran told a press conference.

Special agent in charge of the FBI’s office in Memphis, Doug Korneski, said that “there is no indication that other people were involved”, although he added that leads are still pending.

With the investigation ongoing, authorities said they were unable to give details of possible motives for the event, but claimed Warner was not on their radar prior to the explosion, AFP news agency reported.

Police reportedly identified Warner, 63, on Saturday as a “person of interest” for his alleged connection to the explosion, which came from a motorcade parked on a street in downtown Nashville that had issued a message from alert earlier. to explode.

Officers searched a house in Antioch, a neighborhood in the city area, but at that time they did not want to confirm whether they already had a suspect.

The explosion that occurred around 6:30 a.m. Friday in historic Nashville, the country music capital of the United States, damaged some 40 buildings and injured at least three people, at a time when the La area was virtually empty in the early hours of Christmas Day.

Authorities found human tissue at the site of the blast, which Tennessee chief investigator David Roush confirmed to match DNA found in the vehicle used by Warner.

Police said after the explosion that it was an “intentional act,” but the motive remained unclear and FBI behavior analysts were working on the investigation.

The trailer was parked in front of an AT&T phone company building and caused damage that disrupted telecommunications services in Tennessee as well as parts of Alabama and Kentucky.

AT&T said in a statement that customers in the tri-state were still experiencing outages, more than 48 hours after the explosion.