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All seven schools in the northern Manitoba city of Thompson were evacuated Tuesday after a series of bomb threats.
Calls were all made around noon to each school individually, RCMP said in an email. They initially said six schools were evacuated.
The schools were evacuated out of an abundance of caution as officers worked to clear each building, police said in a news release Tuesday afternoon.
Three schools were deemed safe as of 2 p.m., said Angele Bartlett, superintendent of the School District of Mystery Lake, which operates six of the schools. RCMP confirmed that no suspicious items were found during police searches.
The expectation is that the schools will be open for classes Wednesday, Bartlett said.
In the meantime, a heavy police presence should be expected around schools until the matter is fully resolved.
There are six elementary schools and one high school in the city, about 645 kilometres north of Winnipeg.
Six of the schools are administered by the School District of Mystery Lake, while the seventh, La Voie du Nord Community School, is part of the Franco-Manitoban School Division. The French division confirmed threats were also made to La Voie du Nord and the school was also evacuated.
The threats were made on the day a graduation parade was supposed to be held at R.D. Parker Collegiate, the Thompson high school. The event was postponed and the school was evacuated.
Nearby buildings, like the University College of the North campus and the Thompson Regional Community Centre, were not closed and operated as normal.
No arrests have been made, RCMP said.
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