AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on serial bombings in Texas (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Investigators have closed off an Austin-area FedEx store from where officials say two package bombs were sent to a distribution center near San Antonio, including one that detonated.Authorities have roped off a large area around the shopping center in the Austin enclave of Sunset Valley where the store is located. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the parcel bomb that exploded early Tuesday in the distribution center in Schertz was mailed from Austin and addressed to an Austin home.The police department in Sunset Valley, which is surrounded on all sides by Austin, says it appears that both package bombs that made it to the Schertz facility went out from the Sunset Valley store.Authorities suspect the parcel bombs are linked to the four bombs that have killed two people and injured four others in Austin this month. ___ 11:40 a.m. President Donald Trump is blaming a "very sick individual or individuals" for a series of bombings in Austin, Texas. Trump said during an Oval Office meeting Tuesday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the situation is "terrible."
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