NEW YORK, Nov 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – Local authorities conducted investigations, after New York University (NYU) evacuated multiple buildings, due to bomb threats, Thursday night.
“NYU received bomb threats for three locations: the Stern School of Business, Centre for Neural Science, and Hebrew Union College,” the school said, in its website Thursday evening.
The locations were soon evacuated, according to the university. Police conducted a search and later issued an all clear.
“The police have completed their investigation of the bomb threat that NYU received earlier this evening, having searched four NYU buildings and Hebrew Union College; they have issued an ‘all clear,'” NYU Spokesman, John Beckman, said in a statement.
“We are pleased there was no danger to our people, but are deeply troubled by the series of bomb threats against universities,” Beckman said, adding, all NYU classes, activities, and operations will proceed as scheduled.
The University of Southern California (USC) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) also received bomb threats on Thursday, causing evacuations. Law enforcement agencies determined the evacuated buildings are safe and “normal business resumed,” USC said.
The Cambridge Police Department, after investigating the MIT bomb threats, said that, “at this time, no evidence has been found to substantiate the threats.”
Earlier this month, multiple Ivy League schools in the East Coast of the United States, including Yale, Columbia, Cornell and Brown, had also received bomb threats respectively, and were forced to warn students to evacuate campus buildings.
U.S. law enforcement agencies didn’t deem any of the threats credible.– NNN-XINHUA
