Threats of “explosive devices” in schools in Northern Ireland and Scotland have been received in hundreds of schools, but the UK authorities are treating the situation as “low risk”, saying it is a hoax. However, the situation is still under investigation.
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19/10/2026
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Cschool entenas in the UK received a threatening e-mail about the existence of “an explosive device”. Some establishments even closed doors and asked their parents to pick up their children. The authorities, however, consider that the risk “it’s low”.
Irish Deputy Chief of Police, Ryan Henderson, explained by the BBC that “incidents of this nature are taken very seriously”, and that the authorities are aware not only of the concern generated, but also of the disturbances caused.
“ Our investigations are ongoing, but we now consider the risk to be low.”, reinforced the same person responsible.
In Northern Ireland, schools have received bomb threats, which will have originated outside the United Kingdom. Paul Givan, Minister of Education of Northern Ireland said, quoted by Sky News, that the threats were signed with the expression “Allah Akbar”, an expression used in the Muslim religion. Givan also said that schools should remain open.
The Scottish police said that they were aware of some messages that had been sent to several schools, but that the situation was being viewed as a “a hoax”.
Some schools in the Scottish Glasgow region were evacuated in the morning, but have already reopened.
In Lambeg, Northern Ireland, a school sent e-mails to the heads of education to tell them to go “right away” to get the children. “Don’t panic, all children are fine”it was read in the same note.
The authorities of Northern Ireland said that even 300 schools received messages with widespread threats.