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Mother of Austin spa worker says package bomb was addressed to her daughter

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The mother of an Austin spa worker says one of the package bombs was addressed to her daughter at the downtown Austin spa.

Anita Ward, a nurse at Austin Med Spa, tells the Austin American-Statesman that the FBI and Austin police told her daughter Tuesday morning that she was the intended recipient of the bomb. She says her daughter also works at the spa.

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READ MORE: Austin police find confession from serial bomber Mark Anthony Conditt

The package was intercepted, unexploded, at a FedEx sorting centre.

Ward says her daughter does not know the bombing suspect, Mark Conditt, who blew himself up early Wednesday as a tactical squad closed in on him.

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