A wave of bomb threats were reported against businesses, schools hospitals in cities across the country on Thursday, causing nationwide panic.
A wave of bomb threats were reported against businesses, schools hospitals and other locations in cities across the country on Thursday — causing nationwide panic and evacuations, although they all appeared to be hoaxes.
Police in cities nationwide reported the bomb threats, some emailed, some phoned in.
A spokesman for the Oklahoma City Police Department said there were between 10 and 13 specific email bomb threats with specific addresses in and around Oklahoma City. The spokesperson said police were investigating all of the threats but they had not found anything serious so far.
Authorities in New York City were monitoring “multiple bomb threats that have been sent electronically to various locations throughout the city,” the New York Police Department’s counter-terrorism bureau said on Twitter.
“These threats are also being reported to other locations nationwide & are NOT considered credible at this time,” police said in the tweet.
New York police later said on Twitter that there was an “email being circulated containing a bomb threat asking for bitcoin payment” and that no devices had been found at the numerous locations targeted.
