The event that occurred on Saturday morning is being investigated as a suspected car bomb. The mayor of the city confirms that a bomb was behind the explosion.
The US Justice Minister Pam Bondi writes in a post on X just before midnight that the government "are well aware that women and mothers make up the heart of the USA", and continues:
"Violence against a fertility clinic is unforgivable".
Four people were injured in the attack, it is unclear how seriously.
The fertility clinic's management states that no staff members were injured and that no patients were present at the clinic when the explosion occurred.
The explosion damaged the clinic's office premises, where consultations with patients are conducted, but the IVF laboratory and the stored embryos are believed to have escaped damage.
The head of the FBI's office in Los Angeles says that the event is seen as a terrorist act.
This is probably one of the largest bomb investigations we've had in southern California, he says to reporters on site near the clinic.
