At least two people injured in the explosion of a possible drug-manufacturing laboratory in Tarzana late Thursday night, March 30, were being treated as suspects, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The pair — identified only as a 26-year-old woman and a 52-year-old man — were taken to a hospital after the blast, which occurred just before 11 p.m. in the back of a property with a house in the 18800 block of Redwing Street.
The two were still in critical condition as of Friday afternoon, said Officer Annie Moran, an LAPD spokeswoman.
She said the two were being investigated for the apparent drug lab. It was not clear whether they would be arrested when released from the hospital.
The back wall of the garage was completely blown apart, exposing the interior, which was left charred and smoking as firefighters picked through the wreckage.
“It was terrifying,” one neighbor told Fox 11. “It sounded like a war was going on.”
Cecil Mangrum, a Los Angeles Police Department detective, told Fox 11 police believed the lab was operated by “amateurs trying to make a quick buck.”
“It results in stuff like this,” he said, “property damage and sometimes even death.”
City News Service and RMG News contributed to this story.
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