A 56-year-old Iowa woman has passed after tragedy struck at a gender reveal party.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 4pm Saturday afternoon reporting that a woman had been seriously injured in an explosion. Investigators determined that that a gender reveal announcement created an explosion, and unfortunately the woman was struck by a flying piece of debris.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Unfortunately, the family inadvertandly made a pipe bomb which resulted in the tragedy. Marion County Sheriff Jason Sandholdt said, "They had a metal base plate along with a two-by-two metal piece connected to the stand in the bottom. They put in gunpowder with a fuse, put in a piece of wood in between as a buffer and powder on top of that."
Knoxville resident Shane Farriester said of the incident, "It was a horrible accident. Something that is really just terrible. Who can expect such a terrible loss to happen when someone is trying to celebrate and welcome a life to the family."
Via KCCI