University of Texas in Austin cancelled classes and evacuated its campus Friday after an apparent al-Qaida bomb threat surfaced; and in a reportedly unrelated matter, North Dakota State University took the same measures after it fielded a bomb threat.
Kxan.com in Texas reports that “classes at the University of Texas are canceled Friday following a bomb threat from a caller claiming to be with al-Qaida who said he placed bombs all over campus.”
“ … UT Director of Communications Rhonda Weldon said the university got a call around 8:35 a.m. from a male with a Middle Eastern accent claiming to have placed bombs all over campus. That’s when campus officials began the campuswide evacuation. … The caller said said he was with al-Qaida and that these bombs would go off in 90 minutes, which would have timed out about 10 a.m.”
No bombs have been found.
In North Dakota, administrators at North Dakota State University took similar measures after receiving a bomb threat. The Associated Press reports that:
“North Dakota State University President Dean Bresciani said 20,000 people also were evacuated from his school’s main and downtown campuses in Fargo after the school received its bomb threat Friday morning. Officials did not immediately release details about the North Dakota threat and its evacuation remained in place by early afternoon.”
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