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Convicts face possible life in prison. (Representative)
Bratislava:
Slovak schools and institutions, including banks, received more than 1,100 bomb threats on Tuesday, prompting evacuations across the country, as police announced they had opened a terror investigation.
“This act is being investigated as a particularly serious crime of a terrorist attack,” said Deputy Police Chief Rastislav Polakovich.
“Emails started coming into the schools from five or six o’clock on Tuesday morning,” Polakovich said, adding that about 1,000 bomb threats were made to schools and more than 100 of them were received by banks. were
“Police are working at full speed, checking security at schools and working to identify the culprit,” the police wrote on their official Facebook page.
Convicts face possible life in prison.
Lucia Forman, a spokeswoman for the autonomous region of Bratislava, told AFP that the country had recorded bomb threats at dozens of schools.
“We have taken all necessary steps, the children have been evacuated and the police is dealing with the case,” he said.
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