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The Slovak police received more than a thousand bomb threats on Tuesday. The police are trying to find out who sent all those threats to schools, banks and shops.
Police teams with sniffer dogs and explosives experts were called out several times throughout the country. The warnings led to mass evacuations.
These are emails from an anonymous sender. The reports, claiming explosives were stored in hundreds of schools, came in around 5am.
It is not known what exactly was said in the threatening emails. According to Slovak media, the emails were written in Slovak and sent from a Russian email address. The messages appeared to be directed against “enemies of Islam”, as the writer of the emails called them.
A week earlier, 120 bomb threats were also received
Most messages were sent to schools. Classes were suspended as specialist teams came to investigate the warnings. Police also announced that at least 110 banks and 40 electronics stores received bomb threats.
Authorities say the emails have caused “psychological stress” across the country. The huge increase in bomb threats comes on the heels of a similar incident last week. Threatening emails were also sent to more than 120 schools in the Bratislava region.
The police say they are working intensively with security services to identify the people behind the threats. The perpetrator risks life imprisonment.
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