FBI says it’s treating a bombing outside a California fertility clinic as a terror attack

The FBI says that it considers an earlier bomb explosion outside a California fertility clinic, in which one person was killed, to have been a terror attack.

The blast tore through downtown Palm Springs, ripping a hole in the clinic and blowing out the windows and doors of nearby buildings, an AFP journalist on the scene reports.

“Make no mistake, this is an intentional act of terrorism,” Akil Davis, the head of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office tells reporters near the site of the fatal explosion.

“This is probably one of the largest bombing investigations that we’ve had in southern California,” he adds.

He confirms that one person near the clinic at the time of blast had been killed and that four others were wounded. Work was ongoing to identify the deceased, he adds.

Asked whether the clinic was deliberately targeted, Davis answers: “We believe so, yes.”