CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Investigators in Wyoming sought to identify two men they believe left a homemade bomb in front of the state Capitol, causing the building’s evacuation after a passerby found the object and brought it inside.

The device left sometime early Tuesday, described by Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation Commander Ryan Cox on Wednesday as a “deconstructed live firework munition with a fuse” measuring less than a foot (30 centimeters) long, was not rigged to explode remotely.

“It would’ve had to been lit with a lighter, or similar-type fashion,” Cox said.

It was not in a bag or other container when left on the state seal, a round, 10-foot-wide (3-meter-wide) decoration of inlaid stone midway between the Capitol front steps and the street, sometime between 4 a.m. and 8

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