Officials responded to an explosion at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday night.
Brain Sumner, a Los Angeles-area reporter, said via Twitter that Sgt. Karla Ortiz, an airport police spokeswoman, told him that there was a dry ice explosion at Terminal 2 near Gate 27.
“I don’t know if this is something that was done accidentally or on purpose,” Ortiz said. “I don’t have all the details of why someone would carry dry ice in a bottle.”
A bomb squad from LAPD is on the scene.
The explosion happened in a bathroom stall in a “secure” employee bathroom, a police source told Sumner.
Flights from Terminal 2 were delayed but have now resumed.
Ortiz called it a “small type of explosion.”
Dry ice bombs are, according to the National Institutes of Health, made by “thrusting dry ice into soft-drink bottles and occluding [closing] the opening of the bottles.”
There are no known injuries as of yet, reported Gadi Schwartz of NBC. Investigators told Schwartz that it “looks like someone put dry ice in bottle in a bathroom, and expanding air inside bottle caused a small explosion.”
The bottle was reportedly a 2-liter plastic soda bottle.
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