False warning on a bomb in a private Bahraini school
Bahrain, Local, 3/23/2005

The security authorities on Bahrain evacuated a private school yesterday after it received a warning to that a bomb is in the school's building. But the inspection operations carried out by the police did not discover a bomb.

The governor of the central region in Bahrain, Salman al-Zayani, said that the inspection operations were carried out by special units of the police and the Bahrain defense force, adding that "the warning was false." He explained that the director of ( al-Bayan) school informed the authorities he had early in the morning received and email message alleging that there is one bomb implanted in the school prepared for blowing up in 9.30 morning.

The police blocked the street leading to the school which is situated in a region including several private schools near the ministry of education and the university of Bahrain.

Explosives experts started inspection operations supported by trained dogs on discovering explosives after evacuating the surrounding of the schools.

The governor who was with the inspection teams said that the message alleged "that the explosion came on the background of teaching American curricula in an Arab Islamic country." The source added that the source of the message is not known yet and that efforts continues to know the source.

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