Bomb threats force evacuation of schools across Italy.
The threats, which reportedly affected about 6,000 schools, according to Italian news agency Ansa, citing the Education Ministry, also prompted security concerns in Britain and Ireland, where […] The post Bomb threats force evacuation of schools across Italy appeared first on Vanguard News .
Schools across Italy were evacuated on Wednesday following a series of bomb threats, which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described as hoaxes, insisting that there was no concrete danger.
Meloni convened a government meeting with security and intelligence chiefs on Wednesday to review the incidents.
Although it was unclear how many Italian schools evacuated their students, crowds of schoolchildren were seen outside educational institutions in different parts of the country. Some students said they had to leave their classrooms hurriedly, abandoning their belongings while awaiting police checks. A 19-year-old student at Rome’s Virgilio High School, Sofia De Ponte, told AFP that the school’s principal said a bomb threat had been received by email before ordering an evacuation. “The principal came out into the courtyard and told us that an email had come in, a bomb threat, and right after that the building was evacuated,” she said.
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