240 Schools In Hungary Receive Bomb Threats, Police Search The Perpetrators Through Email Service Providers

School illustration. (Unsplash-Alam Kusuma)

JAKARTA - Hungarian police conducted an investigation into the threat of bombs enlivened via email to 240 schools in their country on Thursday, January 23. As a result, teaching and learning activities at many schools in Hungary were stopped.

Citing AFP, the police who were deployed conducted examinations of a number of affected schools did not find any explosives and explosives.

Hungarian Chief of Staff, Viktor Orbon, Gergely Gulyxis, said teaching and learning activities at several schools resumed after the police conducted an examination.

However, the school is still welcome if you want to send the students home.

Gergely added that Hungarian PM had communicated with the interior minister and the minister who led the Hungarian secret service to follow up on the threat of the bomb.

Meanwhile, the Hungarian secret service has followed up by coordinating with various email provider applications to reveal the identity of the sender.

Yesterday, Bulgarian public broadcaster BNT reported that a number of schools in dozens of cities in Bulgaria also received bomb threats.