Few Clues Found After Bombing Goes Wrong
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MARTINEZ, Calif. — Investigators sought Sunday to determine the identity of a man who was killed while apparently placing high explosives under a truck parked in a small residential neighborhood.
Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies said parts of the man’s body were strewn along the street. No motive for placing the bomb, possibly dynamite, was known.
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