2nd Package Explosion Monday Injures Woman In South Austin Home

SOUTH AUSTIN, TX — A second explosion in Austin was reported in South Austin just before noon on Monday, four hours after a similar blast rocked an East Austin home and killed a teenager.

The latest explosion along Galindo Street occurred just before noon on Monday. According to Austin-Travis County EMS medics, a woman in her 70s sustained serious, potentially life-threatening injuries and was rushed to Dell Seton Medical Center for treatment. A second victim, a woman in her 80s, was hospitalized for unrelated medical reasons.

The Galindo Street house explosion occurred is near Montopolis Drive and East Riverside Drive in the southeast part of the city.

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Earlier Monday, in East Austin, a teenager died and a woman in her 40s injured by a blast that occurred Monday along the 4800 block of Oldfort Hill Drive at 6:44 a.m. The 17-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene in the earlier explosion on Galindo Street, near 51st Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard.

It's the third such explosion this month. On March 2, another home explosion occurred in the northeast part of the city in what is now being investigated as a homicide. Details are scant, but law enforcement officials have labeled the incident as a package explosion. That first explosion along the 1100 block of Haverford Drive left a man dead at the scene.

Police now are warning residents against accepting or opening suspicious packages inside their homes.

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