New Delhi: Brown University students were told to vacate the building on Sunday afternoon after college officials received bomb threats. The Brown Daily Herald, an independent student newspaper, said after a thorough search that Brown University and Providence police officers found no credible evidence Sunday night.
In addition to Brown, several Ivy League colleges, including Cornell, Columbia and Yale universities, had similar reports.
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Brian Clark, a university spokesman for the Boston Herald, said: “Following an extensive search by both Brown University and Providence police officers, the university’s Department of Public Safety issued a clear update for the Brown campus.”
Students were told to avoid Meeting Street near the Life Sciences Building because of a “suspicious package” even after a security alert was given at 3:50 pm on Sunday.
The Boston Globe further reported that an hour later, University officials sent a second alert stating that the Life Sciences Building was not included, but to avoid the “Main Green Building, John Hay, The Rock, and List Art” until further notice.
However, by 6:15 pm on Sunday, university operations had resumed as normal and previously vacated buildings were reopened, the spokesperson said.
Although reports said it was unclear whether the bomb threat was linked, searches at Cornell continued until late afternoon. As the Boston Globe reports, Columbia University was evacuated an hour after Brown sent out his first alert.
Yale University received a bomb threat on Friday and after a five-hour search, the matter was cleared.
According to media reports, last week the Athens campus of Ohio University and Miami University in Ohio also received similar threats, but they were not considered credible.
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