Bomb threat forces evacuation of all schools students in Canadian province

All schools students have been safely evacuated Wednesday in Canada's Prince Edward Island province after police received a threat claiming bombs were placed in a number of schools, according to CTV Wednesday afternoon.

The island province has 62 public schools and nearly 20,000 students.

No injuries have been reported, nothing suspicious has been found at any of the schools, and no suspects linked to the threat have been identified.

A number of units from both federal and provincial police were involved in the investigation.

Some schools in Nova Scotia province and Manitoba province in the country were also threatened Wednesday, but police were still investigating whether the threats were linked.

At a news conference in Ottawa Wednesday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assured citizens that "all local authorities are deploying all necessary resources to this ongoing operation."

"As a parent, I know how worrisome this type of situation can be and I know that the affected parents must be having a very difficult day. We continue to monitor the situation closely."

The bomb threat to island schools was initially delivered to Royal Canada Mounted Police (RCMP) in Ottawa via fax on Wednesday morning.

The threatening message said that bombs were placed in several schools in the island province and would be detonated the same day, but did not specify school names.

All the schools were notified within 10 minutes and evacuations began as quickly as possible. All students are safe and there were no injuries during the evacuations.

Other threats targeted a Nova Scotia community college and some schools in Winnipeg. Police have not yet confirmed that the threats are linked.

Police officers attended each school on the island, but could not confirm that every school was actually searched for explosives.

The police later clarified that police will "investigate any unusual items in Island schools.

Source : XINHUA