Car bomb victims in Pennsylvania include father and 2-year-old son

While investigators were looking for clues to the wreckage, a father and his 2-year-old son were identified as the first known victims of an accident. car explosion in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Saturday night who left a downtown street dotted with pieces of cars and human bodies. County Attorney General Lehigh, Jim Martin, said the investigators thought that one of the three dead men was a suspect in the blast.

Thirty or so investigators analyzed the explosion scene Monday, most from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Some wore combinations of dangerous goods. Autopsies were scheduled for Monday and the authorities planned to disclose the names of the victims pending the notification of their families.

"We know that there has been a criminal incident," District Attorney James Martin said at a press conference Sunday. "We are very confident that the author was probably killed in the incident."

The authorities did not reveal any information about the possible cause of the explosion, including whether it was a bomb or not, but Mr. Martin said that "many of us who are responsible for apply the law "are confident" it was an A. isolated incident and B. no permanent threat ".

A video posted on Twitter showed the first responders watching a car on fire and a human hand dismembered in the street.

The Morning Call newspaper reported that family members had confirmed the identity of the deceased and his son, but the newspaper did not reveal the names. The paper also reported that investigators had gone to a house in the city and that a woman from the house had accompanied them.

Resident Carlos Perodin told The Morning Call of Allentown that he was watching a movie with his wife when he heard an explosion of thunder and went to the scene.

"The fire was crazy," he says. "The car was pretty much divided in two."