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A high school in Chiba Prefecture was forced to postpone a festival scheduled for Saturday due to a bomb threat.
Police said that a message was sent by email early Saturday morning to Chiba prefectural police headquarters, saying that a bomb had been planted on the premises of Chiba East high school in Inage Ward. The writer said the bomb would explode at noon, Sankei reported.
As a safety precaution, the school decided to move the festival to Sunday instead. Although police searched the school buildings, nothing was found. About 1,200 people were inconvenienced, school officials said.
Police patrolled the area on Saturday night, and the festival was held on Sunday without any incident.
© Japan Today
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khulifi
Terrorist
Mirai Hayashi
More like disgruntle staff....
Elizabeth Heath
Neighbours sick of the noise from those OTT loudspeakers I'd guess. You could hear them on the moon.
Jumin Rhee
Will probably happen on Sunday as well so they can postpone it to Monday in lieu of schoolwork.
Harry_Gatto
No, it's some silly schoolkid and the cops will have him/her within a couple of days.
sensei258
An email threat? Should be easy to trace unless they used a proxy server.
Daniel Brooks
Some one unemployed did it like always
timtak
This happened twice at my educational institution, once at the time of the entrance exams and once, four years later, on a day when graduation theses were due. I think that they eventually caught the student who phoned in one or other or both of the threats. My guess is that a competitor at this festival did not feel well prepared.
Oxycodin
sounds like it was staged false flag if not that police men who was patrolling be dead and blown to peaces. Where was the bomb squad. In Japan no one has bombs so there is no need for a bomb squad. Then again its better to be safe than sorry but I wouldn't want to be that police patrolling on the day the bomb going to explode and die for what?