Many schools in Ontario, particularly in the east and north of the province, were evacuated on Wednesday following bombings.
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said “multiple schools affiliated with multiple school boards” were targeted by bomb threats. The perpetrator or perpetrators demanded a sum of money from the facilities attacked.
“As a precautionary measure, several schools were closed,” police said, but said no explosive device had been found so far.
The OPP could not reveal the exact number of schools targeted, saying only that the majority are in the north of the province or in the east, near the Quebec border.
Several school authorities said they closed their schools on Wednesday due to the threats. This is particularly true for the English and French counterparts of the Timmins-based Northeastern Ontario School Board and the Grandes Rivières Catholic District School Board, which announced their schools will reopen Thursday.
The south of the province was not spared. Three Toronto-area schools and a school in Burlington were also evacuated Wednesday, local police said. No bomb was found here either.
The OPP has failed to establish a connection between any of these events and has limited itself to saying it is continuing its investigation.