Police probe cause of Mich. vehicle blast; 3 hurt

Police said they're trying to figure out what caused an explosion that turned a vehicle along a Michigan street into a blackened shell and seriously injured a man and two children inside. Monroe Police Lt. Charles Abel said the blast Tuesday evening is "being listed as a car fire with an explosion,' and he doesn't know whether it was the result of a vehicle malfunction or something else. Police in the city near the Ohio state line had said this moring it was "being investigated as the detonation of a car bomb.'

AP Wire

Sep 21, 2011

Abel said local, state and federal law enforcement officials were to meet mid-morning to discuss the case.

The vehicle’s three occupants were listed in serious condition at St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio.