5 Officers Injured in Unexpected Explosion During FBI Bomb Training in Pennsylvania

5 Officers Injured in Unexpected Explosion During FBI Bomb Training in Pennsylvania
A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington on Aug. 3, 2007. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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Five bomb technicians have been injured after a device unexpectedly detonated Thursday during an FBI live explosives response training for the Philadelphia field office, officials said.

FBI Philadelphia was holding the response training at the State Correctional Institution Phoenix, a prison in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, when the incident occurred, the agency said in a statement on Twitter.
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