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All Prince Edward Island schools were evacuated Wednesday due to a bomb threat received through a fax machine to the RCMP.
According to Sgt. Kevin Bailey, the threat rolled off a machine for the Mounties in Ottawa Wednesday morning and was forwarded to their PEI counterparts.
“This fax indicated that a bomb had been placed in a number of schools in Prince Edward Island,” Bailey shared. “It didn’t specify which schools. It did state that the bomb would be detonated (today).”
Bailey says within ten minutes of receiving the fax RCMP in PEI was on the phone with the local school board.
Plans were initiated to have every school checked and to bus students from elementary and high schools home.
Bailey says each PEI’s schools have been checked and nothing suspicious found, though specialized bomb personnel and dogs were not used. He explains it would take “weeks” to have dogs examine every inch of every school.
RCMP do not yet know who is behind the threat.
They are also looking into whether there are connections to other threats at schools in a few Nova Scotia cities Wednesday.
Winnipeg Police say its school division also received a faxed-in threat against all city schools Wednesday.
PEI’s schools are expected to open as normal on Thursday morning.
Agencies/Canadajournal
