AUSTIN, Texas ― Austin police on Tuesday evening responded in full force to an incident on the city’s south side, initially fearing another in a series of bombings that have rocked the Texas capital in the past couple of weeks. But the Austin Police Department said later in the evening that the detonation at a Goodwill in South Austin was not caused by a package bomb but rather an “incendiary device,” and the event likely wasn’t connected to this month’s series of bombings. “This was not an explosive device,” Ely Reyes, the assistant chief of police, said at a media briefing late Tuesday. The worker later opened the package and discovered two “small devices” that appeared to be some type of “artillery simulators that looked like some type of military ordinance or memento.”When the worker picked up one of the devices, it detonated in his hand, causing an injury. Reyes said the person was taken to a hospital and was “doing well and recovering.”There was major police presence near the reported blast, and law enforcement asked residents to avoid the area.

Source: Huffington Post March 21, 2018 00:34 UTC