According to reports, over a dozen people were injured at a FBI training facility in Irvine, California.

Reports indicate Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies were using the facility when the incident occurred Wednesday afternoon.

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“An explosion left several members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department hurt in Irvine, California,” Insider Paper writes.

CBS News reports that at least 16 individuals sustained injuries.

Per CBS News:

Sixteen people were injured during an explosion at an FBI training facility in the Southern California city of Irvine Wednesday, officials said.

Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies were using the facility on Magazine Road when the incident occurred a little before 1 p.m., a department spokesperson told CBS Los Angeles.

Thirteen of the injuries were related to the noise of the blast, resulting in the victims suffering from dizziness and ear pain, the sheriff’s department said.

Two of the injuries were to victim’s legs, one of whom will require surgery. Another person suffered a back injury but will not require surgery, a sheriff’s department spokesperson said.

Fifteen of the victims were taken to nearby hospitals by Orange County Fire Authority paramedics, while one person self-transported, the sheriff’s department said.

FOX 11 noted:

SkyFOX was over the scene at an FBI facility on Magazine Road in Irvine on Wednesday as parts of the complex were closed off. Initially reported as a training incident by the OC Sheriff’s Department, officials later specified the said incident was an explosion.

OC Sheriff’s Department said no one was seriously hurt and that the FBI had nothing to do with the incident even though the incident took place in a gun range owned by the feds.

Officials did not specify how the explosion happened in the first place.

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