An explosion, possibly originating in a vehicle outside a fertility clinic, rocked Palm Springs Saturday, heavily damaging the clinic while apparently killing one person.
Palm Springs police Lt. William Hutchinson told local media at the scene there appeared to be at least one fatality. An image posted online by a witness showed what appeared to be a body nearby.
Officials at the American Reproductive Centers clinic also appeared to have received word of the death, saying in a Facebook post, “We are heartbroken to learn that this event claimed a life and caused injuries, and our deepest condolences go out to the individuals and families affected.”
Dr. Maher Abdallah, who runs the fertility clinic, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that all of his staff were safe.
ABC7 in Los Angeles, citing an unnamed law enforcement source, reported that five people were injured in the explosion and the person who died was a suspect in the blast.
City officials said Saturday in a social media post that the explosion happened at 11 a.m. local time. Residents were being asked to avoid the area around North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive. The blast also shattered windows at multiple businesses.
Explosion at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. Buildings within a half mile radius have their windows shattered, including the regional hospital. pic.twitter.com/KZPPQgbhgj
— Luis Roman (@luisromanvlog) May 17, 2025Hutchinson told the Desert Sun, “Everything is in question, whether this is an act of terrorism.”
Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are on their way to the scene near the clinic to help assess what happened, according to spokesperson Nicole Lozano.
The clinic is located near Desert Regional Medical Center, which did not sustain any serious damage.
“Our emergency department remains open and our hospital is fully operational. We are temporarily asking visitors to refrain from coming to the hospital as police have limited access to the road in front of our campus,” according to a hospital statement. “Some windows were broken in a medical office building directly facing the explosion. Hospital operations have not been affected.
The explosion damaged the practice’s office space, where it conducts consultations with patients, but left the IVF lab and all of the stored embryos unharmed.
“I really have no clue what happened,” Abdallah said. “Thank God today happened to be a day that we have no patients.”
Nima Tabrizi, 37, of Santa Monica, said he was inside a cannabis dispensary nearby when he felt a massive explosion.
“The building just shook, and we go outside and there’s massive cloud smoke,” Tabrizi said. “Crazy explosion. It felt like a bomb went off. … We went up to the scene, and we saw human remains.”
An affiliate of ARC, according to the centers’ website, is located in El Cajon.
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