(CNN) -- An Austin, Texas, resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a small plane into a building housing an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, officials said.

Attack occurred at a facility associated with the U.S. Embassy.

Police have arrested a Nigerian airline passenger following a disruption on the same Detroit-bound flight that was attacked Christmas Day by another Nigerian man who attempted to blow up the aircraft while in flight.

The suspect suffered third degree burns and was taken into custody. The passengers, two of whom suffered minor injuries, left the Delta Air Lines plane, which had departed from Amsterdam.

"We believe this was an attempted act of terrorism," a White House official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. President Barack Obama is on vacation in Hawaii and was monitoring the situation.

Representative Peter King, who sits on the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said the explosive device was "fairly sophisticated," and the suspect was a 23-year-old Nigerian.

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Golfing superstar Tiger Woods has been seriously injured in a car accident near East Lake, Fla., according to Florida media reports.

Citing a report from Florida Highway Patrol, local media outlets said that Woods pulled out of his driveway at around 2:25 a.m. ET, struck a fire hydrant, and then a tree at his neighbour's property.

He was transported to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee in serious condition.