Los Angeles police injure 17 in explosion after detonating fireworks they seized

Department causes explosion on residential block, flipping cars and smashing windows

The Los Angeles police department detonated a cache of homemade fireworks it had seized, causing a major explosion on a residential block that injured 17 people, flipped and damaged cars and smashed windows in nearby homes.

It could take days to determine why what was supposed to be a safe operation to handle explosives that police said were too unstable to remove turned into a huge explosion.

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