Authorities said they found a body Thursday morning after an explosion at a home in New Haven, Connecticut injured nine police officers.
Authorities did not immediately identify the body.
Officials discovered the remains after police and fire officials arrived at a home in New Haven in response to a domestic violence complaint. The Hartford Courant reported that Wednesday's explosion happened in a barn on the couple's property.
Here is the latest information:
Update 9:35 a.m. May 3: Trooper Kelly Grant said authorities found the remains of one, unidentified person in a building at the home in North Haven. She said a postmortem exam will determine the person's identity and his or her cause and manner of death.
Officials said the blast happened at a barn behind the home Wednesday night while police were negotiating with a man accused of domestic violence.
The officers, from East Haven, North Haven and Branford, suffered injuries that did not appear to be life threatening.
Kelly says that a woman had called police to report domestic violence before the explosion Wednesday night.
Update May 3, 2018 3:37 AM EDT: According to The Associated Press, the officers, whose injuries were not considered life-threatening, were at the scene of a barricade where a man had held his wife hostage when the blast occurred, police said.
Investigators are looking into what caused the explosion, which originated from a barn behind the couple's home after the woman escaped from her husband, police said.
Police wouldn't say whether the man had been arrested.
"This is still an active, ongoing scene," Deputy Police Chief Jonathan Mulhern told the AP. "This is not a stable scene at this point."
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