he Austin bomber is dead after blowing himself up as police and FBI agents tried to arrest him in the early hours of Wednesday. The bomber, described as a 24-year-old white male who lived locally, killed himself and injured an officer when he detonated a bomb inside his car as police surrounded him several miles north of the city around 3am.
Despite the death police have warned that more bombs could still be out there because they do not know where the bomber has been in the last 24 hours.
Two people were killed and six injured in a series of bombings that left Austin gripped in fear and stoked racial divisions in the city.
The bomber had targeted black and Hispanic neighborhoods. The first two victims came from prominent African American families while the third was Hispanic.
Police still do not know the motive behind the attacks, but say the suspect was not previously known to law enforcement.
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