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Around 6,300 schools in Italy receive false bomb threats

Verified: 49 outlets in 21 countries have reported this story since Nov 11, 2 of them from Italy. About 300 evacuated, according to 4 outlets.

📍 Italy, IT·🕐 12m ago·49 outlets

About 6,300 schools across Italy received emails containing false bomb threats on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for Italy’s Ministry of Education cited by Reuters. Several schools were evacuated after receiving the threats. According to Reuters, the messages contained identical bomb threats sent directly to schools. Italian police are investigating the case, a spokesperson for…

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Evacuated: about 3004 outlets: independent.co.uk, scmp.com +2· latest Nov 11, 12:28 PM UTC
Some 300 Italian schools evacuated due to bomb threats ↗

The story so far · 48 reports · · 21 countries✓ Verified Nov 11, 11:22 AM UTC

2 outlets from Italy, where the story is: ANSA, Wanted in Rome · how we count

Nov 11, 10:29 AM UTCFirst report
Bomb threat at dozens of schools in Italy following anonymous email ansa.it ↗
Nov 11, 10:54 AM UTC+26 min
Mass UK school evacuations after hundreds of bomb threats warn 'death is near'mirror.co.uk ↗
Nov 11, 10:59 AM UTC+31 min
Hundreds of schools in Italy evacuated after receiving bomb threats france24.com ↗
Nov 11, 2:58 PM UTC+5 h
Local schools targeted with bomb threat emails anglocelt.ie ↗
Nov 11, 3:00 PM UTC+5 h
Thousands of schools in Europe get hoax bomb threats cbsnews.com ↗
Nov 11, 3:04 PM UTC+5 h· you’re reading this
Around 6,300 schools in Italy receive false bomb threatscphpost.dk ↗
Nov 11, 3:12 PM UTC+5 h
Full list of areas affected as Scottish schools sent 'bomb threats'thenational.scot ↗

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[Claude] All three reports describe the same Wednesday wave of bomb-threat emails to Italian schools; their differing counts (dozens, 300, hundreds) are consistent with the 6,300 figure in Report 1 as an earli

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