The scare impacted roughly 1,800 institutions on Thursday after a staggering 6,300 of the nation's 7,476 state schools received initial warnings on Wednesday. Investigators traced the menacing messages to digital origins in Taiwan and a compromised account belonging to an educator in the Philippines. In Rome, parent demonstrations erupted when one headmaster refused to dismiss classes after noticing grammatical mistakes in the alert.
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The Italian government advised institutions against ordering evacuations based purely on…: The Italian government advised institutions against ordering evacuations based purely on unverified bulk emails.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni identified the widespread threats as an intentional strateg…: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni identified the widespread threats as an intentional strategy to cause panic.
Similar educational and transit disruptions occurred in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and C…: Similar educational and transit disruptions occurred in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Calais, France.
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Schools across Italy have received bomb threats for the second day in a row, sparking fresh panic and evacuations.
Some 1,800 schools, from Milan in the north to Sicily in the south, reported receiving a similar threat to one that created chaos in Italy on Wednesday - even though no devices have been found anywhere.
The Italian government has advised schools that "in the absence of concrete evidence beyond the simple receipt of a mass email indicating a danger, buildings must not not be evacuated".
Schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland received threats on Wednesday, too. It is unclear whether the incidents are connected.
On Thursday morning, a bomb alert at a Calais rail station delayed international and national train services in northern France.
The latest incidents follow a series of bomb hoaxes last week against airports and airlines in a number of European countries.
Although a number of threats were claimed by an extremist misogynistic group, it later denied any link to the false warnings.
Wednesday's email threat - sent to 6,300 out of a total of…
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