Harvard evacuated due to 'unconfirmed' reports of explosives on campus
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Harvard University on Monday
warned of "unconfirmed reports" of explosives planted at four buildings
on its Cambridge, Massachusetts campus. The school said it evacuated the
buildings.
"Science
Center, Thayer, Sever, and Emerson. Evacuate those buildings now," the
tweet said. Harvard University and Cambridge police were on the scene
investigating.
Students & police wait in Science Center Plaza after bomb threat forces evacuation at Harvard.
Harvard's campus is located in a crowded urban area adjoining Boston.
"Out
of an abundance of caution, the buildings have been evacuated while the
report is investigated. Harvard's focus is on the safety of our
students, faculty and staff. We will update the media when we have more
information," the University posted on its website.
Ben
Forman, an employee at the Harvard Book Store on Massachusetts Avenue,
told the Boston Globe the atmosphere around Harvard’s campus was not too
panicked this morning as police swept through the yard.
“It looks pretty relaxed out there actually,” he said.“There is a gate closed into the yard, but its not panicked.”
Meanwhile, Dean of Freshmen Thomas Dingman says morning exams in affected areas have been cancelled.
Shortly
before 11 a.m., HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said in a phone
interview that no explosives had been found at that point.
Asked
about growing media speculation on whether the call could have been a
hoax, Sam Weinstock, incoming president of student newspaper the Harvard
Crimson, refused to speculate.
"We have no idea what the nature of the call was or what the nature of the threat is now," he told CNN.
Monday's
scare comes three days after an American schoolboy armed with a shotgun
opened fire and wounded two fellow students before killing himself at a
high school in Colorado.
It
also comes less than a month after Harvard's great rival Yale went on a
four-hour lockdown after an anonymous caller said his roommate was
planning to shoot people on the campus.
Teams
of police scoured the sprawling Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut
but there were never any reports of shots fired nor of any injuries. Nor
was the presumed gunman found.
Harvard
was founded in 1636 and has around 21,000 students. It has educated
current and former leaders from all over the world and a string of
American presidents, including Barack Obama.
Voice of Russia, Reuters, AFP
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