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BEDFORD -- An explosion that rocked a Bedford apartment complex was sparked by a tenant making methamphetamine, police said.\nNo injuries were reported after Friday's explosion at Pioneer Village Apartments, a string of three duplexes on Old U.S. 50 south of Bedford.\nOfficers continued to investigate the incident Saturday and were still searching for the suspect or suspects who fled. Police would not release the names of the suspected tenant or tenants.\nLawrence County Sheriff Kent Hawkins said the 1:10 a.m. Friday explosion was heard by occupants of the other two duplexes, and one neighbor heard someone yelling for help.\nWhen officers arrived, they found no one in the apartment where the explosion had occurred, Hawkins said.\nHe said an initial investigation found precursors for the manufacture of methamphetamine in the apartment.\nAfter obtaining a search warrant, officers found an anhydrous ammonia container that had exploded while hidden under the apartment's floor, he said.\n"We established later (the meth) was being cooked," he said. That is the most "volatile part of the process because it can explode. It did," he said.\nMaster Trooper Jackie Taylor of the Indiana State Police said anhydrous ammonia was at the center of the explosion.\nLandlord dispute turns ugly\n MARION, Ind. -- A Marion man suffered a deep gash to his abdomen when his landlord pulled a 3-foot sword and slashed the tenant during a dispute, police said.\nLawrence Walker, 46, was in satisfactory condition Sunday with a 3-inch-deep gash to his lower abdomen, according to a Marion General Hospital spokeswoman.\nPolice arrested Tim Allen, 44, who manages a building that contains seven or eight apartments, said Marion Police Sgt. D.J. Jeffries. Allen was charged with battery with a deadly weapon resulting in serious bodily injury. He was being held at the Grant County Jail on Sunday.\nPolice said Walker and Allen got into an argument over rent when Allen pulled a sword and stabbed Walker. Walker then ran next door to a bar, where a bartender called police.\nJeffries said police had been called to the apartment complex before to settle disputes involving Allen."He routinely carries a sword with him," Jeffries said. "Apparently he just has a thing for swords."\nNo permits are necessary for a citizen to carry a sword.\nThree die in crash on Indianapolis' north side\nINDIANAPOLIS -- A car collided with an oncoming sedan on a city street early Saturday, killing three people.\nChristopher Lamberg, 16, was driving a car that veered off the right side of the street and then back onto the road at about 1 a.m., Marion County sheriff's Sgt. Claire Stipe said.\nThe driver apparently overcorrected, and his sedan collided with the oncoming car, Stipe said.\nThe two people in that car were dead at the scene. The driver was identified as Brandon Brown, 22, of Indianapolis. The passenger was Janelle Spivey, 22.\nLamberg was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital.