Hundreds of Italian schools hit by threats in suspected bomb hoax
Summary
About 300 schools across Italy received bomb threats, prompting precautionary evacuations. Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said the threats were probably a cyber-attack and that checks had found no sign of a real danger; authorities were investigating.Key Facts
- Threat emails reached schools in Rome, Naples, Vicenza, Florence, Pisa, Trieste and other Italian cities.
- Reports said about 280 school head teachers had received threats in recent days.
- Some schools were evacuated on Wednesday, but pupils were allowed to return after the alarms were lifted.
- Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called a meeting with senior ministers and intelligence chiefs.
- Meloni said checks had not found evidence of a concrete danger.
- Bomb-hoax emails also targeted more than 300 schools in Northern Ireland, and police treated messages sent to schools in Scotland as hoaxes.
- Authorities had not established whether the threats in Italy, Northern Ireland and Scotland were connected.
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