Some Hungarian schools opened bomb threat emails only on Friday

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Police have inspected the buildings of 313 schools across Hungary over bomb threats sent on Thursday, the spokesman of the National Police Headquarters (ORFK) said.

Kristóf Gál told a press conference that on Thursday morning 273 schools in Budapest and 19 outside the capital received bomb threats. Another school was searched before classes started on Friday after more schools found threatening emails in their spam folders on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, Gál said.

The principals of another 21 schools, five in Budapest and 13 outside the capital, that had not received a threat, also asked police to carry out an inspection, he added. “We have done so at every site. We had enough police staff standing ready to be dispatched to the sites within a matter of minutes,” Gál said, and thanked teachers and students for their “disciplined and responsible cooperation” at every site.

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