Thousands of schoolchildren, office workers and shoppers were evacuated from over 100 buildings in and around Moscow today, reports say, in the latest wave of fake bomb threats to hit Russia.
Last week, 55 buildings were evacuated in Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg and several other cities like Krasnoyarsk in Siberia and Volgograd in the south were forced to act after receiving similar threats.
Today’s alerts prompted the evacuation of some 20,000 people as authorities conducted sweeps, only to find nothing, news agencies report, citing the emergency services.
The false alarms targeted more than 90 buildings in Moscow and over 40 in the region of the capital, the TASS state news agency reports, citing an emergency services source.
Many of the warnings were sent by email and had very similar wording, Russian media reports say.
Hundreds of students gather outside the Russian State University of the Humanities in central Moscow, with the university saying it canceled all classes for the day due to a mass evacuation.
— AFP
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