<div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-0"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">At least three sheriff’s deputies were killed in an explosion on Friday morning at a law enforcement training center in Los Angeles, federal and local officials said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It was not immediately clear what caused the blast, which officials said occurred at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Training Academy center in East Los Angeles.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that three members of the agency had died in a “critical workplace incident” at the training center at around 7:30 a.m. Pacific time on Friday. Homicide detectives with the department were investigating at the site of the blast.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media that “our federal agents are at the scene and we are working to learn more.”</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="Dropzone-1"></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-1"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“Please pray for the families of the sheriff’s deputies killed,” she added.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Several other agencies also sent investigators to the site of the explosion, including the F.B.I.; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the arson counterterrorism unit of the Los Angeles Fire Department.</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="ImageBlock-3"><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure aria-label="media" class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"><div data-testid="lazyimage-container" style="height:257.77777777777777px"></div></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption"><span class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">The Biscailuz training facility on Friday, where an explosion occurred around 7:30 a.m. Pacific time. </span><span class="css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Etienne Laurent/Associated Press</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-2"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Hilda Solis, a Los Angeles County supervisor whose district includes the training center, said she was in contact with County Sheriff Robert Luna about the blast.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“My heart goes out to the families, friends and colleagues of the three individuals who lost their lives in what appears to have been a devastating explosion,” Ms. Solis said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Friday’s explosion comes more than two years after a deadly episode at a training facility for the sheriff’s department. In November 2022, 25 recruits at an academy near the city of Whittier were injured while on a run after a driver going the wrong way ran into them. One of the recruits later died from his injuries, and the driver was <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://lacounty.gov/2023/11/09/man-charged-with-in-death-of-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-recruit-injuring-other-recruits-in-wrong-way-crash-in-whittier/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">charged</a> with vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving.</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="Dropzone-5"></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-3"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">This is a developing story.</em></p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div>