3 killed in explosion at police training facility in U.S. state of California

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Three deputies were killed in a deadly explosion on Friday (July 18) at the Biscailuz Center Academy Training facility in East Los Angeles.  They were Detective Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Detective Victor Lemus, and Detective William Osborn who were all assigned to Special Enforcement Bureau’s Arson Explosives Detail.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yyau5bxt   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Three deputies were killed in a deadly explosion on Friday morning at a police training facility

00:07in Southern California.

00:08The blast occurred shortly after 7.30 a.m. at the Biscay Luce Center Academy training

00:14facility in East Los Angeles.

00:16Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna described the incident as the largest loss of life for

00:21the department in over 160 years.

00:24This is, unfortunately, the largest loss of life for us as the LA County Sheriff's Department

00:32since 1857.

00:35Between all three sworn members, they had served our community proudly for 74 years, and that's

00:43amongst all three of them collectively, 19 years, 22 years, and 33 years.

00:51The three deputies who died were Detective Joshua Kelly Eklund, Detective Victor Lemus, and

00:56Detective William Osborne, who were all assigned to Special Enforcement Bureau's Arson Explosives

01:01Detail.

01:02A solemn procession was held in their honor later that day.

01:06Aerial footage showed motorcycle officers leading a motorcade beneath a large American

01:11flag suspended between two cranes.

01:14Along the route, fellow law enforcement officers stood at attention and saluted as a sign of

01:19respect.

01:21According to reports by the Los Angeles Times, the blast is believed to have occurred while

01:25a bomb squad was handling explosive materials, though the details have not been officially

01:30confirmed.

01:31The exact cause of the blast remains under investigation.

01:44They were activated.

01:45The experience of the supports, while the train was observed, what was the most effective

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01:51and the battle of Innocent.

01:52Now being there was a tendency of a means to have occurred that fear has not been observed, or no

01:53consequences, or a concern that fear has been if there wasn't even seen as the

01:55random person that was malfunctioning.

01:56The death of the event.

01:57The death of Our death of our death would be a great fluke.

01:58The death of either death or death, or death of death, which has not been eliminated, or death of

02:01the death and death.

02:02And the death of death was a disaster.

02:03The death of death of death, and death of death, the death of death of death.

02:04The death do not mean death in our lives, which has not been hardened, yet

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