Montenegro Suspends School Classes After Another False Bomb Alarm

A school in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Ministry said classes were suspended in the capital Podgorica and towns including Bar, Kotor, Herceg Novi, Niksic, Berane, Danilovgrad, Kolasin, Bijelo Polje, Plav, Gusinje, Sutomore, Petrovac, and a kindergarten in the town of Mojkovac.

Municipal buildings in towns of Bijelo Polje and Berane are also evacuated

Police said they were taking security measures in schools while verifying the allegations. "School administrations and teaching staff are cooperating with the police and have informed parents. They need to continue to communicate with school administrations in order to resume classes after police activities end," the police press release said.

The media reported that schools all over the country received threatening emails from an unknown person, which stated that "many bombs have been planted on school grounds".

"We always dreamed of revenge. We will take revenge. We'll come to school. We will kill everyone. No one will stay alive. The whole city will bleed," the emails added.

In Niksic and Bar, municipal buildings were evacuated and surrounded by police. Police also evacuated the court building in Bar.

Mayor of Niksic Marko Kovacevic called on citizens not to panic. "It's terrible that someone is threatening human lives in this way," he posted on Facebook.

On April 24, police searched a primary school in the coastal town of Ulcinj after it received a threatening email from an unknown person reading: "Someone will come in with a firearm and make a massacre." The school was closed at the time for the Orthodox Easter holidays.

On April 1, police warned that an unknown person...