The Christmas morning explosion engulfs downtown Nashville

Authorities say the intentional act is said to be a Christmas morning explosion that shook downtown Nashville, injuring at least three people and damaging dozens of buildings. According to police, officers from the Nashville Metro Police Department were responding to a call for gunfire around 5:30 a.m. Friday when they encountered an RV parked in front of an AT&T transmission building north of 2nd Avenue at 166. The RV was playing a recorded message that a bomb would explode in 15 minutes, Nashville Metro Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference Friday. Officials did not see immediate evidence of the shootings, but asked for a departmental dangerous device unit and began evacuating neighbors in the neighborhood, police said. The bomb crew was responding when the RV exploded at 6:30 a.m. CT, police spokesman Don Aaron said. “We think it was a deliberate act,” he said. “There has been a lot of damage to the infrastructure on the north side of 2nd Avenue.” Three people were taken to hospitals from the scene, but no one was in critical condition, according to Nashville Fire spokesman Joseph Pleasant. #Nashville #CNN #New.

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