16 injured after explosion at FBI training centre in California

At least 16 people have been injured following an explosion at an FBI training facility in California the incident occurred during a SWAT training exercise on Wednesday and all of those injured are members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office according to local officials none of the injuries are considered life-threatening the FBI was

Not involved with the exercise at the facility which is frequently used for firearms training and testing by local law enforcement the cause of the black is under investigation during the training an explosion occurred indoors uh which caused injury to 16 members of our SWAT Team 15 members of our SWAT

Team were transported to local hospitals uh by ambulance and one member was able to transport himself to the hospital as far as the injuries uh the most severe injury that was sustained was one of our SWAT team members had a leg injury that is going to require surgery but is not

Considered life-threatening two other members had superficial injuries one was to a member’s back and the other injury was to a leg neither one of those are going to require surgery 13 members were taken to local hospitals as a precaution uh because they had complaints of dizziness as well as ringing to their

Ears of those 13 members many of them are already out of the hospital uh this is going to be this incident is going to be investigated by our department in coordination with the FBI uh the device was part of the train as far as what they were doing when it happened that I

Don’t know uh that will come out in the investigation

Sixteen members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office were injured on Wednesday following an explosion during an exercise at a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) training facility in Irvine, Calif.

None of the injuries were life-threatening, but one SWAT (Special Weapons and Training) team member will require surgery on their leg, Sgt. Frank Gonzalez of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.

The FBI was not involved with the exercise at the facility, which is frequently used for firearms training and testing by local law enforcement, authorities said.

Details about the explosion are under investigation, Gonzalez added.

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