Toronto police investigate 11 Bomb Threat Toronto school calls
Toronto police are investigating a bomb threat toronto case after multiple schools across the city received threats by phone on Tuesday. Bruce Junior Public School and St. Augustine Seminary were evacuated as police looked into the calls.
Police said the threats are believed to be from the same person. They also said there is no evidence to suggest the threats are credible.
Bruce Junior Public School
Bruce Junior Public School was one of the two institutions evacuated on Tuesday. The other was St. Augustine Seminary, as the threats spread beyond a single campus and reached schools in more than one part of Toronto.
St. Augustine Seminary
Toronto police are actively investigating the threats and are treating them as a citywide pattern rather than an isolated call. The belief that the calls came from the same person is the main link police have identified so far.
For school communities, the immediate issue is whether their building was among those contacted by phone on Tuesday. Police have said the calls were not credible, but they have not identified the schools that received them or how many were involved.