California ‘bomb factory’ goes up in smoke

A house in California containing a “bomb factory” of explosives went up in smoke on Thursday — in an operation controlled by fire services, who said it was the safest way to destroy it.

Occasional blasts could be heard as flames leapt high into the air, after a bomb-arson team ignited the building in Escondido, some 30 miles (45 km) north of San Diego in southern California.