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Spanish man arrested over emailed threats to schools, children evacuated
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on February 27, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 25, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on February 27, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 25, 2026
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Valencia for threatening school attacks, causing evacuations in Bunol. Police ensured safety and urged calm.
MADRID (Reuters) - A 24-year-old man was arrested in Spain's eastern Valencia region on Thursday over emails threatening to attack schools and "kill as many people as possible," police said.
Several schools in the town of Bunol and surrounding areas were closed or evacuated after receiving the threats, authorities said.
"Since early morning, both the Guardia Civil and the Bunol Local Police have been in charge of checking all the schools and protecting them," the Bunol municipality said.
"The schools have been evacuated due to the social alarm created. We call for calm," it added on its Facebook page.
(Reporting by Emma Pinedo; Editing by Andrei Khalip and Andrew Heavens)
The evacuation was triggered by emails threatening to attack schools and kill as many people as possible.
Both the Guardia Civil and the Bunol Local Police were in charge of checking all the schools and ensuring their protection.
The Bunol municipality called for calm and stated that the schools were evacuated due to the social alarm created by the threats.
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