Bomb Threats Across Russia Prompt Mass Evacuations

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Bomb Threats Across Russia Prompt Mass Evacuations
Sep 12, 2017 — 14:22
— Update: 16:58

Dozens of buildings including schools and malls in more than 12 Russian cities have been evacuated since Sunday after authorities received a series of anonymous bomb threats, the Interfax news agency reports.

Interfax cited a law enforcement official in Chelyabinsk as saying that the evacuations were prompted by bomb scares across cities in Russia. "There's reason to assume this was all organized abroad," the official was cited as saying.

Continued: https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/bomb-threats-prompt-evacuations-at-russian-schools-stations-malls-58920