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Italy evacuates at least 300 schools after identical emailed bomb alerts
Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said at least 300 Italian schools were evacuated Wednesday after the same bomb-alert message, which he treated as a presumed hoax, SCMP reported.
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- New headline Was: “At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts”
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At least 300 schools in Italy were evacuated on Wednesday after receiving the same bomb alert message, Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said1.
Valditara told the La7 television channel the alerts were presumed to be hoaxes and that the number of schools affected was expected to rise1.
SCMP, publishing a Reuters report, quoted a school message that students had been taken to a safe area and remained under teaching staff supervision after a nationwide bomb alert1.
The same SCMP copy placed the alerts amid European concern about so-called hybrid warfare threats to civilian sites; that surrounding context is the outlet’s framing, not an established link to these emails1.
Reuters carried a matching headline on the evacuation count and email alerts; this desk could not read that article’s full text2.
Whether any device was found, and how many schools were ultimately emptied, is not established in the copy available here1.
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2 sourcesOver 300 Italian schools evacuated after receiving same emailed bomb alert
The nationwide scale of identical emails and the minister’s view that the volume itself undercuts the threat.
Italy’s education minister said at least 300 schools were emptied after a matching emailed bomb alert, which he treated as a likely hoax as the count was expected to rise.
At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts
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