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.
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