Explosive Device Detonated By Police At NC Wal-Mart Store
July 21, 2008 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Officials are being tight-lipped on the details about an explosive device found at Wal-Mart. Police only told Eyewitness News it was “disrupted” and “diffused.”
Police say no one was injured by an explosive device that was detonated by a bomb squad at a Boone store.
Detective Matt Stevens of the Boone Police Department said the device was found at the front entrance of Wal-Mart by an employee about 5:40 a.m. Sunday. One worker said the package was smaller than a shoe box.
The store was evacuated for about five hours while a bomb squad from Wilkes County was called in to examine it. The store re-opened around 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
Stevens says the device was dangerous, but refused to further describe it. The only thing police said was the device would appear dangerous to the average person.
