Some 300 Italian schools evacuated due to bomb threats

MILAN: Italian authorities evacuated some 300 schools across Italy on Wednesday after receiving an emailed bomb threat, the latest disruptions affecting European institutions following hoax bomb threats against airlines and broadcasters in recent weeks.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said in a statement that there was no indication of any “concrete danger” to Italian schools and said the threats appeared aimed at “generating alarm and concern.”

She said investigations were underway, and that she had convened a meeting of ministers for later in the day.

The anonymous email also contained a threat against Meloni, according to copies obtained by Italian media including the news agency LaPresse. She did not address the personal threat in her statement, and Meloni’s office had no immediate comment.