By Police1 Staff
BOSTON — Police told CBS Boston that someone walked by a patrol car and threw a propane tank underneath the cruiser on Friday.
According to the news station, an officer was able to move the vehicle before the tank exploded.
Police Commissioner William Evans said the incident was a “deliberate act.”
“Clearly someone set this deliberately to blow up one of our cruisers,” Evans said. “Thank god we were able to get anyone out of the way and pull the cruiser out before it did explode.”
No one was injured.
FBI and the Boston bomb squad are investigating. No arrests have been made.
Boston Police say propane tank was thrown under officer’s cruiser in a “deliberate act.” https://t.co/CM5Z49Q3tP pic.twitter.com/V7QtewnpX8
— WBZ Boston News (@cbsboston) January 20, 2017