Schools evacuated in UK and across Europe after bomb threats

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Schools across Scotland and Northern Ireland were evacuated (Picture: Getty Images) Schools across Scotland and Northern Ireland have been evacuated after receiving bomb threats.…

Schools across Scotland and Northern Ireland have been evacuated after receiving bomb threats.

‘Hundreds’ of schools reportedly received threatening emails and were forced to evacuate or send pupils home.

All schools across Edinburgh were briefly evacuated this morning, The Herald reports, while a large number of schools in the Highlands and Fife were also impacted.

The Education Authority in Northern Ireland said an email message had been sent ‘to a large number of schools’.

Pupils huddled under foil blankets in Kinross to keep warm after being forced to leave their classrooms.

Parents at Leslie Primary School in Fife were told that ‘hundreds’ of schools had received a threatening email.

Police Scotland said the messages, which were sent to distribution lists across the UK, are being treated as hoaxes and there is no credible threat to the public.

They added: ‘Our advice is that there is no requirement to evacuate schools or keep children away from education based solely on the content of the emails.

‘Police Scotland’s Cyber and Fraud Unit is carrying out extensive enquiries to establish the source of the messages, and officers continue to liaise with law enforcement partners across the UK and internationally.’

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