About 300 schools across Italy received bomb-threat emails on Wednesday, and some buildings were evacuated before officials said checks had not shown a concrete danger^1,2.

Italian Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said the incidents were probably a cyber-attack rather than a genuine risk and described a pattern of threats that had also targeted flights, supermarkets and hospitals^1,2.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the government was monitoring reports at educational institutions and that investigations so far had not indicated a persistent concrete danger^1,2.

BBC News said emails reached schools in Rome, Naples, Vicenza, Florence, Pisa, Trieste and other cities, and that many pupils were allowed back after alarms were lifted¹.

Politico Europe, citing local reporting, said more than 270 schools in Scotland and more than 300 in Northern Ireland were targeted, with some emails also reaching England and the Republic of Ireland².

Police in Northern Ireland and Scotland treated the messages as hoaxes, BBC News reported, and it was unclear whether those incidents were connected to Italy¹.

Irish Education Minister Hildegarde Naughton said police assessed the emails as not credible and that schools did not need to evacuate².

The school emails followed a week of bomb hoaxes against European flights and Irish media outlets; authorities found no explosives on the aircraft, Politico Europe reported^1,2.

Who sent the school emails, and whether the campaigns are linked, remains under investigation^1,2.