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Police search Halifax schools after threat
OLIVER MOORE
Globe and Mail Cupdate
May 17, 2007 at 2:43 PM EDT
HALIFAX — Thousands of students got the day off after a series of threats led to the temporary closing of three Halifax-area high schools.
Police bomb dogs were searching the buildings Thursday and the school board here was uncertain whether the schools would be back open before the long weekend.
According to both police and the board, a student at Auburn Drive High School found a written threat this morning in one of the school bathrooms. The threat made reference to a bomb set to go off at a specific time this morning, said board spokesman Doug Hadley.
The school was cleared and the 1,200-strong student body was brought to a nearby community centre.
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Shortly after, an employee at nearby Cole Harbour High School received a telephone call warning about a bomb there. The school too was cleared and the students brought to the same community centre.
Students from Cole Harbour high said they were in class when an announcement on the public address system told them to evacuate to Cole Harbour Place, a community centre next to the school.
“They just said, ‘Take your stuff, don't go to your lockers, exit the building,' and everyone just came here,” said James Cardey, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student from Lawrencetown, N.S.
“There were people just running everywhere.”
Asked if he was frightened by what happened, he said: “Not really, I don't even think it's true.”
With bomb-sniffing dogs examining both schools and no sense how long the search would take, the board opted to let the roughly 2,500 students have the remainder of the day off.
“We're not too surprised ... past history has shown that when there are threats of traumatic events in public institutions you see copycats,” Mr. Hadley said, pointing out that a school in Fredericton had faced a bomb scare earlier this week.
A local RCMP spokesman said that those behind the bomb threats can expect to be prosecuted.
Another school in the area was also closed today. A notice went out last night that Lockview High School, in nearby Fall River, would be closed because of a specific threat of violence.
With a report from Canadian Press
