The Latest: 1 dead, 1 hurt in rural Nevada explosions
By Associated Press
Jul 14, 2016 2:53 PM CDT

PANACA, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on explosions that killed one person in a small Nevada town (all times local):

12:55 p.m.

Authorities say one person was hurt in the explosions that killed another person in a rural Nevada town.

The Lincoln County sheriff's office said Thursday that one person suffered non-life-threatening injuries from the Wednesday evening blasts on a residential street in Panaca.

The sheriff is expected to discuss the preliminary investigation at a press conference scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Panaca Fire Department.

The state has deployed resources from multiple agencies to the small farming community near the Utah border.

Las Vegas police, the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also are investigating.

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11:50 a.m.

A neighbor says shrapnel from two explosions in a rural Nevada town landed as far as a block away on his property.

Dave Free of Panaca said he has broken windows, car parts in his driveway and shrapnel next to his horse feeder. He said his family and animals weren't hurt, though they were shaken by the blast.

Free says the shrapnel could have hit his young grandsons, who feed the horses. He says they could have been killed and that "it could have a real bad deal."

Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee says one person was killed. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says its agents are going to investigate the car explosion.

Authorities have released few other details.

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9:30 a.m.

A neighbor says a pair of explosions in a small Nevada town destroyed a car, damaged homes and left a person dead.

Richard Katschke says the blasts rocked his house and damaged others about 165 miles north of Las Vegas. He said his home had very minor damage and that his family is "very shaken but OK."

Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee said one person was killed.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokeswoman Helen Dunkel said its Vegas-based agents are heading to the rural area to investigate the car explosion as part of a multiagency task force that handles bomb investigations.

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7:55 a.m.

A sheriff says a pair of explosions in a small Nevada town killed one person and prompted a request for a bomb unit to respond from Las Vegas, about 165 miles away.

Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee said in a statement Thursday that the blasts occurred about 8 p.m. Wednesday in Panaca (pah-NAK'-uh).

A sheriff's dispatcher says the blasts weren't at a business, and it didn't appear that anyone else was injured.

Las Vegas police Lt. Carmen Donegan tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal (http://bit.ly/29RaoXW ) that the department's ARMOR unit was sent Thursday to the scene. ARMOR stands for All Hazards Regional Multi-Agency Operations and Response.

Other department officials didn't immediately respond to messages.