China News Service, November 8th. According to foreign media reports, three Ivy League schools in New York and Rhode Island in the United States announced on the 7th that they had been evacuated due to bomb threats.
According to the latest news, the police said that the alarm has been lifted and the activities of the schools can return to normal.
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According to Reuters, on the 7th, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Columbia University in New York City received bomb threats and then organized the evacuation of personnel from main buildings.
A few hours later, the police on the three campuses said that these bomb threats were not credible.
Cornell University, which has 21,000 students, said in a tweet: “Law enforcement has ended its search of the Ithaca campus; no credible threats have been found. It is safe to resume all normal activities.”
It is not clear whether there is a connection between these threats.
On the 5th, Yale University, an Ivy League school located in New Haven, Connecticut, also received bomb threats. It was later discovered that these threats were not credible.