Bomb Threat Evacuates Barja School

A private school in a coastal town in the Shouf district was evacuated on Thursday after an SMS bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax.

Security forces searched La Cite Nationale School in Barja, south of Beirut, after the principal said a secretary received an SMS warning about a bomb.

The school administration immediately evacuated the building after the threat, Principal Salah Abdul Samad told Voice of Lebanon radio station (100.5).

“We sent the students home,” he said.

However, a bomb disposal squad, backed by sniffer dogs, found no bomb.

The incident came a day after explosives were found in the parking lot of a business center in the southern port city of Sidon.