SHELBY
Authorities have detonated two dangerous homemade bombs in southwestern North Carolina but it's unknown where the bombs came from.
The first bomb was discovered Monday on a busy stretch of U.S. 74 near Shelby. Police say that a second one was found along the same road yesterday, less than two miles away.
Both bombs were detonated by bomb squads from the Gaston County and the Gastonia police departments.
Monday afternoon, a motorist alerted police to a 6-inch-long device wrapped in silver tape with a fuse sticking out, resembling a stick of dynamite.
A Gastonia police spokesman said that the devices had similar characteristics.
At least one motorist drove over the first bomb but didn't set it off.
Each device "would cause serious bodily injury if you were close to it when it was detonated," said Gastonia police Sgt. Dean Conner.
The passerby who alerted police to the bomb yesterday had moved it out of the roadway into a grassy field, Conner said, warning that no one should touch a suspicious device, just notify authorities.
Police have no information about who planted the bombs.
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