Incident details
- Date of incident
- September 12, 2025
- Location
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Targets
- KSTU
Utah broadcaster KSTU reported a bomb was placed under one of the TV station’s news vehicles in Salt Lake City on Sept. 12, 2025. The incendiary device “failed to function” and no injuries were reported. Two men have since been arrested by the FBI.
The FBI has charged two Utah men with allegedly placing an incendiary device under a news vehicle from broadcast station KSTU in Salt Lake City on Sept. 12, 2025.
KSTU reported that the device was determined to be real and, according to officials, the bomb had been lit but “failed to function.” No injuries were reported.
As a result of the device’s type and location, it was deemed a “significant threat to public safety,” according to the television station, and the investigation was taken over by the FBI.
Two suspects — identified as Adeeb Nasir and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir of the nearby suburb of Magna — were arrested late Sept. 13. According to jail records reviewed by the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, both face multiple felony charges, including attempted aggravated arson, threat of terrorism, possessing weapons of mass destruction and possessing an incendiary device.
It was not immediately clear whether the news vehicle was deliberately targeted or what the suspects’ motives may have been.
In a statement published by the news outlet, KSTU Station Manager Leona Wood said, “FOX 13 News is working closely with law-enforcement and our risk management team, with the safety of our employees as our top priority.”
Neither KSTU, the FBI nor the Salt Lake City Police Department responded to requests for comment as of press time.
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