Hoax bomb threats sent to thousands of Italian schools for second in a row

Verified: 86 outlets in 38 countries have reported this story since Nov 11, 2 of them from Italy. More than 300 evacuated, according to 7 outlets.

Bomb alert emails hit 3,800 Italian schools as the government tells principals not to evacuate. Hoax bomb threats sent by email reached an estimated 3,788 schools across Italy on Thursday, but only 77 were evacuated, the prime minister’s office said, a sharp drop from the disruption of the previous day. The identical emails, signed by a sender calling himself “Mikhail Andropov”, followed a first wave on Wednesday that forced evacuations in many parts of the country. Thursday’s messages reportedly went to around 1,800 schools in the first wave of the morning, this time from various addresses…