Harvard university, Emerson College  Science Bulding, Thayer and Sever.


are all being evacuated for bombs. Major parts of Boston are on lockdown

Harvard university, Emerson College  Science Bulding, Thayer and Sever.


are all being evacuated for bombs. Major parts of Boston are on lockdown
The reports are 'unconfirmed'.

The reports are 'unconfirmed'.


I live here, there are bomb sniffing dogs near me

i will update more on the situation

my house is across the street from park street where the block is being sectioned off
there are bomb sniffing dogs and tons of police ushering ppl out.

On BBC News:

Harvard University evacuated amid explosives alert

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Students gather in Harvard's Annenberg Hall after being evacuated due to the explosives threat

Harvard University in the US state of Massachusetts has evacuated its campus amid "unconfirmed reports" of explosives at four of its buildings.

The university's Twitter feed said there were no reports of an explosion and no indication that any bombs had been placed on campus.

Harvard campus police and local police were said to be on the scene.

Final exams, which were under way at the elite college, have reportedly been cancelled in the affected buildings.

It said in a statement: "The Harvard University Police Department this morning received an unconfirmed report that explosives may have been placed in four buildings on campus: the Science Center, Thayer, Sever and Emerson Halls."

The campus was being cleared "out of an abundance of caution", added Monday's statement.

"There's a lot of helicopters about," Anna Fifield, a Harvard fellow, told the BBC.

She also said all gates into Harvard Yard had been closed following the threat, and "frustrated" students were requesting entrance to cordoned off areas.

It is the latest security threat to a US school in recent months.

In November, another Ivy League institution, Yale University in Connecticut, was locked down for nearly six hours following threats of an armed man in the vicinity. Those reports were later found to be a hoax.

In February, a gunman was reported on the campus of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That threat. too, later proved false.

Amid the ongoing threat of mass shootings at US schools, such alerts are an almost daily occurrence, though most turn out to be nothing.

A BBC investigation found news reports of at least 130 separate incidents where schools or college campuses were placed on "lockdown", just in the month between 9 November and 9 December.

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Campus police and local police are on the scene

On BBC News:

Harvard University evacuated amid explosives alert

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71774000/jpg/_71774912_harvard.jpg
Students gather in Harvard's Annenberg Hall after being evacuated due to the explosives threat

Harvard University in the US state of Massachusetts has evacuated its campus amid "unconfirmed reports" of explosives at four of its buildings.

The university's Twitter feed said there were no reports of an explosion and no indication that any bombs had been placed on campus.

Harvard campus police and local police were said to be on the scene.

Final exams, which were under way at the elite college, have reportedly been cancelled in the affected buildings.

It said in a statement: "The Harvard University Police Department this morning received an unconfirmed report that explosives may have been placed in four buildings on campus: the Science Center, Thayer, Sever and Emerson Halls."

The campus was being cleared "out of an abundance of caution", added Monday's statement.

"There's a lot of helicopters about," Anna Fifield, a Harvard fellow, told the BBC.

She also said all gates into Harvard Yard had been closed following the threat, and "frustrated" students were requesting entrance to cordoned off areas.

It is the latest security threat to a US school in recent months.

In November, another Ivy League institution, Yale University in Connecticut, was locked down for nearly six hours following threats of an armed man in the vicinity. Those reports were later found to be a hoax.

In February, a gunman was reported on the campus of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That threat. too, later proved false.

Amid the ongoing threat of mass shootings at US schools, such alerts are an almost daily occurrence, though most turn out to be nothing.

A BBC investigation found news reports of at least 130 separate incidents where schools or college campuses were placed on "lockdown", just in the month between 9 November and 9 December.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71770000/jpg/_71770031_71770030.jpg
Campus police and local police are on the scene


you are reading this on BBC while i am here in Boston watching bomb sniffing units come one after another
Hopefully this whole thing is false alarm and we are not under attack

Man with fire arm

@ u mass Boston


UPDATE

UPDATE

Man with fire arm false at umass

However other Boston colleges remain evacuated