9/16/2012

Universities in US receiving bomb threats!

North Dakota State University
North Dakota State University ordered an evacuation of its campus following a bomb threat. All employees and students at the Fargo university were ordered off campus in a security alert posted at 9:49 a.m., central time.

Two other bomb threats were reported the same week in the region, closing Hector International Airport in Fargo. The other was reported at the Grand Forks airport.

Another bomb threat was also reported at the University of Texas, Austin.

UT Austin's public affairs department released a statement at 9:45 a.m. local time, which said that it had "received a call from a male with a Middle Eastern accent claiming to have placed bombs all over campus." According to the statement, the caller claimed affiliation with Al Qaeda and said that the bombs would "go off in 90 minutes."

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