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| Los Angeles schools shut over 'threat' | |
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| Los Angeles schools have been closed as an unspecified threat is investigated, police have said. | Los Angeles schools have been closed as an unspecified threat is investigated, police have said. |
| Officials would not specify the nature of the threat, which led to students being sent home and school buses returned to depots. | Officials would not specify the nature of the threat, which led to students being sent home and school buses returned to depots. |
| A school district spokesman said it involved rucksacks, and they were exercising "an abundance of caution". | A school district spokesman said it involved rucksacks, and they were exercising "an abundance of caution". |
| The district is the second largest in the US, with 640,000 students attending more than 1,000 schools. | |
| Police are searching all the schools, which will remain closed until the threat is over, officers told reporters at a press conference. | |
| "Earlier this morning we did receive an electronic threat that mentions the safety of our schools," said Steven Zipperman, chief of the Los Angeles school police department. | "Earlier this morning we did receive an electronic threat that mentions the safety of our schools," said Steven Zipperman, chief of the Los Angeles school police department. |
| "We have chosen to close our schools today until we can be absolutely sure that our campuses are safe." | "We have chosen to close our schools today until we can be absolutely sure that our campuses are safe." |
| An unnamed police official told Associated Press news agency the threat was emailed to a school board member and was thought to have come from overseas. | |
| It comes amid a heightened alert after 14 people were killed by a radicalised Muslim couple in San Bernardino, 60 miles east of Los Angeles. | |
| Los Angeles Unified School District | |
| "I think it's important to take this precaution based on what has happened recently and what has happened in the past," said district superintendent Ramon Cortines. | "I think it's important to take this precaution based on what has happened recently and what has happened in the past," said district superintendent Ramon Cortines. |
| "It was not to one school, two schools or three schools. It was to many schools, not specifically identified. But there were many schools. That's the reason I took the action I did... It was to students at schools." | |
| When asked what was meant be "electronic" threat, he said simply that "it was a message". | |
| In a separate incident, classes were also cancelled at San Bernardino Valley College on Tuesday due to a bomb threat made on Monday afternoon. | |
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