Bomb threats force evacuation of schools across Italy

Schools across Italy were evacuated on Wednesday following a series of bomb threats, which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described as hoaxes, insisting that there was no concrete danger.

The threats, which reportedly affected about 6,000 schools, according to Italian news agency Ansa, citing the Education Ministry, also prompted security concerns in Britain and Ireland, where threatening emails were sent to hundreds of schools.

Meloni convened a government meeting with security and intelligence chiefs on Wednesday to review the incidents.
Although it was unclear how many Italian schools evacuated their students, crowds of schoolchildren were seen outside educational institutions...