At least 3 dead after explosion at LASD training facility

Bomb training gone wrong?
"Preliminary information indicates deputies were moving an unexploded ordnance recently recovered from a bomb callout when the blast occurred, according to two law enforcement sources. The sources stressed that the investigation is ongoing."
 
"Preliminary information indicates deputies were moving an unexploded ordnance recently recovered from a bomb callout when the blast occurred, according to two law enforcement sources. The sources stressed that the investigation is ongoing."
What part of this doesn't make any sense? They had it in the SUV? With the "Bomb Truck" next to it? It only blew out the rear window of the SUV but no other windows of the SUV and killed all 3? Why would they have moved ordnance in a standard vehicle if it was still "live"?

19, 22, & 33 years experience. Something isn't being told.
 
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What part of this doesn't make any sense? They had it in the SUV? With the "Bomb Truck" next to it? It only blew out the rear window of the SUV but no other windows of the SUV and killed all 3? Why would they have moved ordnance in a standard vehicle if it was still "live"?

19, 22, & 33 years experience. Something isn't being told.
Typical bomb truck's not armored, it's just a box truck that hauls gear. Unknown suspect packages get transported in the blast vessels that you see towed behind the truck but if the Deputies had identified whatever they were working with as a known piece of ordnance, their SOP could have allowed for transport from bunker to range in a cruiser.
The updated article mentions grenades. Grenades wound/kill primarily by projecting fragmentation at high velocity. One going off (and the one could have caused others to detonate sympathetically) in the close confines of a vehicle also introduces over-pressure to the mix. You're not going to look pretty coming out of there.
(The article also says "glass was scattered across the parking lot from the windows of an SUV cruiser that were blown out by the explosion," not a window.)
 
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