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Urgent: 3 schools in Australian capital city evacuated after bomb threatening call

Xinhua, February 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Three schools in the Australian capital city have been forced to evacuate after receiving calls of a bomb threat on Tuesday, the police said on its Twitter account.

As a precaution, the schools were evacuated before midday Tuesday, the second day after the new school year started this week. Enditem