| 1 | Aaliyah Doninguez, 11, stands on N. Alameda Boulevard on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, in Las Cruces, N.M., advising parishioners that Holy Cross Catholic Church mass is canceled. |
| 2 | Churchgoers were left shaken during Sunday morning services after authorities say explosions occurred less than 30 minutes apart outside two Las Cruces churches. |
| 3 | LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A pair of small explosions just 20 minutes and a few miles apart shocked congregants Sunday morning at two churches in southern New Mexico. |
| 4 | There were no injuries or deaths from the blasts outside Calvary Baptist and Holy Cross Roman Catholic in Las Cruces, Las Cruces police spokesman Danny Trujillo said. |
| 5 | Each building sustained minor damage. |
| 6 | Authorities are working to determine who planted the explosives, what materials were used and whether the blasts were related. |
| 7 | "It doesn't appear to be coincidental because of the timing, but you never know," Trujillo told The Associated Press. |
| 8 | Several agencies including the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and New Mexico State Police are assisting with the investigation. |
| 9 | The first explosive device went off at about 8:20 a.m. in a mailbox on a wall near the administrative entrance to Calvary Baptist. |
| 10 | According to police, several worshippers were inside the church at the time, but services hadn't started. |
| 11 | According to churchgoers, the blast shook the building and there was debris around the damaged mailbox. |
| 12 | Las Cruces police Sgt. Robert Gutierrez described seeing "just a lot of paper shreds." |
| 13 | The next blast came from a trash can outside Holy Cross Catholic at about 8:40 a.m. as Monsignor John Anderson was helping pass Communion. |
| 14 | "I was right in the middle of saying the words 'take and eat, this is my body,' and there was a pow! I mean, I knew it had to be more than a gunshot," Anderson told the Las Cruces Sun-News newspaper (http://bit.ly/1ME7PEp). |
| 15 | "I didn't know if it was a shotgun blast, I didn't know what. But it was very loud, and I just kept on saying the words." |
| 16 | Ann Marie Sullivan, a college student attending Mass, said it "sounded like something had fallen off and shattered the glass in the back." |
| 17 | The trash can was near a glass entryway, which was damaged. |
| 18 | Police arrived and evacuated the church and blocked off surrounding streets. |
| 19 | Bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in to search the building. |
| 20 | Services were canceled for the rest of the day at both churches, which are less than 4 miles apart. |
| 21 | Trujillo said he didn't know of any recent threats involving either church. |
| 22 | Other churches in the city have contacted police about what, if anything, they should do. |
| 23 | Trujillo said police are advising them to look out for anything suspicious, but don't inspect anything themselves. |
| 24 | "Don't go poking around in trash cans or mailboxes," Trujillo said, according to the Sun-News. |
| 25 | "If you have any suspicion of anything that's out of the ordinary, please call to police and leave it up to the officers to look it over." |