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1st LD: Around 900 Los Angeles schools closed due to bomb threat

Xinhua, December 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

All Los Angeles Unified School District schools will stay closed Tuesday in response to a reported bomb threat, Schools Superintendent Ramon Cortines said.

The threat, which was not immediately detailed, was called in to a School Board member, and the closures apply to all LAUSD campuses, around 900 of them, the nation's second largest school system.

Cortines, describing "a rare threat," told a news conference that he has ordered all campuses searched before the end of the day.

Cortines said he ordered the closures because he was not going to take a chance given recent terror strikes in Paris and San Bernardino.

Board of Education President Steve Zimmer said the district was acting "out of an abundance of caution." Endit