School Evacuated in Urals, Security Forces Block Roads
The school was evacuated on February 3
In the town of Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast, a school was urgently evacuated. On the afternoon of February 3, all students and staff were led out of the building, and security forces blocked the road. Police officers, EMERCOM personnel, and ambulance medics are on site.
The reason was a bomb threat.
«A letter was received on the email of the administration secretary stating that the school had been rigged with explosives and that if the building was not evacuated within two and a half hours, the children would not be taken out, and it would end badly. The information about the bomb threat was immediately passed to the head of the Pyshminsky Municipal District and his deputies. They took all necessary measures and contacted emergency services. The building is being inspected, the results are not yet known,» the administration told E1.RU.
Last spring, a school in the ZhBI microdistrict of Yekaterinburg was evacuated because of an erratic man with a box. He claimed that there was a bomb inside. The Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) was called to the school, and the man was subdued.
Read our extensive overview of how school security in Yekaterinburg actually works. By the way, earlier 57 schools in the city failed a safety inspection: it turned out that some of them lacked panic buttons.
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