(Reuters) - Authorities ordered the campus of Texas A&M University evacuated on Friday after receiving a bomb threat, the latest such incident at colleges in recent weeks.
A warning posted on the university website read: "The University has received a campus-wide bomb threat. We are asking all students, faculty, and staff to evacuate campus as quickly and as safely as possible by foot. Do not use a vehicle at this time. This evacuation is effective immediately until further notice."
All classes have been canceled for the day, university officials said.
Texas A&M, with an enrollment of more than 50,000 students, is located in College Station, about 100 miles northwest of Houston.
Last month, bomb scares and other threats forced the evacuations of campuses in at least five states - Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio and North Dakota.
Police in Louisiana arrested a 42-year-old man in connection with a threat that led to the evacuation of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge on September 17.
Campus police for the University of Texas in Austin, which was evacuated on September 14 for a phoned-in bomb scare, have said they believe some of the threats are connected.
In August a man killed a police officer and another person in a shooting just a few blocks from Texas A&M. Police later killed the gunman, who was being served an eviction notice when he opened fire, in a gun battle that lasted nearly 30 minutes.
(Reporting By Dan Burns in New York and Jim Forsyth in San Antonio, Texas; Editing by Xavier Briand)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-m-campus-evacuated-bomb-threat-174345484.html
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