Police Captain and Bomb Tech die in bomb blast at Oregon bank

Second person dies from Oregon bank blast
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NEW: State bomb technician dies of injuries from bomb explosion

Police captain died immediately; police chief in critical condition

Police originally called to investigate suspicious package at bank

Earlier, police checked a bomb threat called in to nearby bank

(CNN) -- A state bomb technician became the second person to die Saturday after a bomb exploded Friday evening at a Woodburn, Oregon, bank branch.

Technician Bill Hakim and police Capt. Tom Tennant were both killed, said Lt. Gregg Hastings, Oregon State Police spokesman.

Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell was listed in critical condition at Oregon Health and Science University Hospital, according to hospital spokeswoman Christine Decker.

The three were investigating a suspicious device at a West Coast Bank branch when the bomb went off, police said. Police had brought the device inside after it was discovered outside, bank President Bob Sznewajs told CNN.

Sznewajs said that two bank employees who were in another part of the bank when the bomb exploded suffered very minor injuries. One who may have been hit by flying debris and the other was "bothered by the sound," Sznewajs said.

"I know that all of our employees are fine," Sznewajs said, adding that none of his employees had been allowed back into the front portion of the building, where the bomb exploded, "so we don't know what it's like in there."

"I heard a loud kaboom," Robert Currie, who was across the street, told CNN affiliate KATU. "Well, I'm a Vietnam veteran and that was no gunshot -- that was definitely a bomb. So I come running outside to see what was going on and the interior lights of the bank are all out. And the next thing, it's just swarming with police cars, two firetrucks and three or four ambulances."

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