Five people were seriously hurt, two of them critically, when a food truck exploded outside a coffee shop in a popular California shopping district on Saturday morning, according to reports.
The blast shortly after 9:15 a.m. on Greenleaf Avenue in the city of Whittier, about 20 miles east of Los Angeles, rattled nearby stores and sent locals scrambling, the Los Angeles Times reported.
According to the outlet, the five injured were food truck workers who were treated at the scene then transported to local hospitals, while two others suffered moderate injuries and one was…


