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(CNN)The FBI is investigating an explosion outside a local NAACP chapter in Colorado.
A
makeshift bomb, or improvised explosive device, detonated Tuesday
morning but failed to ignite a gasoline can placed alongside it. No one
was injured, but the incident left some shaken in Colorado Springs.
"All of a sudden I heard this big boom," one witness told CNN affiliate KDVR-TV in Denver. "There was smoke everywhere; the building on the side was burnt."
The witness continued: "Whoever did it took off right away though. That's all I heard and it was scary."
The
FBI's Denver office said it's looking for a balding man, about 40, who
was seen leaving the scene in a white pickup with a missing or covered
license plate.
Another witness, Julie Skufca, told KDVR that she stared at a man as he drove away calmly.
"(It) kind of made your heart stop, especially when you have kids," she told the station.
"He
was a heavier white man with what looked like a (Carhartt jacket)" she
added. "Just driving normal like it was a normal day."
The
FBI has not said if the NAACP was targeted. But some pointed out that
the other building tenant, Mr. G's Hair Design Studios, likely was not.
"Who would want to bomb a beauty salon?" one member of the local NAACP chapter told CNN affiliate KCNC-TV in Denver.
Henry
D. Allen Jr., the branch's president, also raised the specter of a
targeted attack, telling KCNC, "Apparently, we're doing something
correct. Apparently, we have gotten someone's attention that we are
working toward civil rights for all. That is making some people
uncomfortable."
The NAACP is the
nation's oldest civil rights organization. The group's national office
says it is looking forward to a "thorough investigation" into the
explosion by national and local authorities.
The FBI has asked that anyone with information call its Denver tip line at 303-435-7787.
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