The situation turned potentially explosive Friday as Penticton RCMP executed a search warrant at the scene of a homicide.
Officers were searching a residence where a man was shot and killed Wednesday when they found what appears to be sticks of dynamite.
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Police evacuated the townhouse complex and called in the Explosives Disposal Unit from the Lower Mainland to dispose of the dynamite.
The sticks can become increasingly unstable with age.
A person arrested shortly after the fatal shooting was later released without being charged.
The name of the victim has not been released.
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