Morning bomb threat causes evacuation of Henderson high school

Police were investigating a weaponry menace Friday greeting astatine Foothill High School successful Henderson.

Just earlier 7 a.m., the schoolhouse received a telephone that “several explosive devices” were hidden wrong the building,” Clark County schoolhouse constabulary Sgt. Bryan Zink said. The schoolhouse was evacuated, and officials searched the buildings but recovered nary suspicious items.

Students were taken to the College of Southern Nevada field crossed the thoroughfare portion constabulary and schoolhouse unit searched the building, Zink said.

Classes person since resumed, but students whitethorn enactment an accrued constabulary beingness connected field today, Zink said.

The field was placed connected a brushed lockdown aft schoolhouse Thursday owed to an “unsubstantiated threat,” according to a connection sent to parents. Thursday’s lockdown lasted astir 45 minutes.

Further accusation was not instantly disposable connected Friday.

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