Communications outages continue following Nashville blast

While authorities are certain that the blast was a deliberate act, they have been silent over who might have carried it out, and why.

Emergency personnel work near the scene of the blast (AP)

Sweeping communications outages continue to plague large parts of Tennessee as US federal investigators combed the site for clues after a camper van exploded in Nashville on Christmas morning.

Police emergency systems in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama, as well as Nashville’s Covid-19 community hotline and a handful of hospital systems, remained out of service due to an AT&T central office being affected by the blast.