Explosion rattles Oregon police car; no injuries

JUNCTION CITY, Ore. – Sheriff’s deputies say an explosion in Oregon rattled a police car, but the two officers inside escaped injury.

Capt. Spence Slater tells the Register-Guard the Junction City officers felt the concussion of an explosion Sunday night and initially thought they had been shot at.

Slater said detectives think the explosion was a pipe bomb, and don’t know whether the officers were targeted or if the timing was a coincidence. It comes after a series of attacks on police nationwide.

At first, police thought the source of the explosion may have been from one of two nearby houses. A SWAT team and a military Humvee were among the officers and equipment dispatched, in case anyone responsible for the explosion was holed up.

Police concluded that no one in those houses was the culprit.