Deadly package bombs in Austin

Two package-bomb blasts a few miles apart killed a teenager and wounded two women in Austin on Monday, less than two weeks after a similar attack left a man dead in another part of the city.

Investigators think the bombings may be linked and are looking into whether race was a factor. The victims were all minorities.

The first of Monday’s attacks killed a 17-year-old boy and wounded a 40year-old woman, both of them black.

Then, as Police Chief Brian Manley held a news conference to discuss that blast, au- thorities were called to the scene of another explosion.

That blast injured a 75year-old Hispanic woman. She was taken to a hospital with potentially life-threatening wounds.

A similar attack on March 2 killed a 39-year-old black man.