Four buildings on the Harvard University
campus were forced to be cleaned up on a late Monday morning when the police
received an email which was claiming that few explosive devices may have been
planted inside the campus. But hours of intense search revealed that there was
no such suspicious device found but the hoax was spread to disrupt the final
exams.
Around 8.40 am the police received an email about the bomb
scare at Harvard campus and immediately the campus buildings were evacuated and
the access to the Harvard yard was sealed. The exams were due to start shortly
before these events unfolded.
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No bomb found in Harvard after a scare triggered evacuations
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Several investigating agencies fielded their men to search
after the receipt of the email and the search went on for hours. Around
mid-afternoon all the students were cleared to return to the campus. One of
those four buildings searched intensively was freshman dormitory and another
three were regular classrooms.
In an official statement issued by the Harvard Community
Executive Vice President Katie Lapp mentioned that the buildings were evacuated
out of an abundance of caution and now the normal activities of the Ivy League
and in Cambridge
are fast returning to the normal. She also added that she is feeling relieved
as there is no suspicious device was found on the campus.
Although there is nothing to worry the Harvard police,
local, state and federal authorities are believed to continue the investigation
to find the mind behind this hoax email. Harvard officials though are
non-committal over connecting this email with ongoing final exams.
Though students have different versions of this. They are not
denying that someone who doesn’t want to appear for the exams may have done
this trick at the same time they are feeling frustrated that the exams of the
day was postponed and they will have to wait and prepare again for the fresh
date.
