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Building on Facebook Campus in California Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat
Washington, Dec 12 (Sputnik) A building on Facebook's campus in Menlo Park, California, was evacuated due to bomb threat, local media reported, citing the police.
Bomb threat shuts down Panepistimiou Street in downtown Athens
Police in Athens had to close down Panepistimiou Street for an hour or so on Friday morning after a bomb threat by an anonymous caller.
The 100 emergency service received a call at around 6.30 in the morning warning that a bomb was timed to go off in 40 minutes outside Number 12, the neoclassical edifice that is home to Greece's Numismatic Museum.
Device in foiled attack against Dogiakos was made up of gunpowder
The ongoing police investigation into a failed bomb attack against a deputy prosecutor in Athens on Tuesday showed that the low-power explosive device was made up of a kilo of gunpowder.
As to the reason why the bomb didn't go off, police believe this may be due to a jamming of the detonation circuit, probably during its transportation on the motorcycle.
Targeted judicial official says he had not received any threats
Isidoros Dogiakos, the Supreme Court deputy prosecutor who appears to have been the target of a failed bomb attack in the early hours on Tuesday, said that he has not been subjected to any threats or intimidation recently that could explain the incident.
Bomb squad defuses device planted outside Athens home of judicial official
Bomb disposal experts defused an explosive device placed outside the Athens home of a deputy prosecutor in the early hours of Tuesday after a warning was called in.
French Police Detain Woman After Bomb Threat at Dunkirk Hospital
French police have detained a woman at a hospital in Dunkirk after she made a bomb threat and sparked a security scare, reported Reuters.
Police said in a statement that the woman made the threat after entering the hospital's emergency care unit.
Hospital workers alerted the police, who sealed off the area and deployed a bomb-disposal team.
Mass Evacuation this Morning in Berlin to Defuse WWII Bomb
THE PLANNED DISPOSAL of an unexploded World War II bomb today will force a mass evacuation around Berlin's central railway station and likely spark transport chaos in the German capital.
Trains, trams, buses and even some flights at the city's Tegel airport will be halted when a police bomb squad starts defusing the British 500-kilogramme bomb unearthed on a building site.
70,000 to be evacuated over WWII bomb in Frankfurt
Some 70,000 people in Frankfurt will have to leave their homes this weekend in one of the biggest such evacuations in post-war Germany, police said Aug. 30, after an unexploded World War-II bomb nicknamed "blockbuster" was uncovered.
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Bomb threat at Egaleo bank branch
Greek police are on alert after an anonymous phone call of a bomb threat at bank in the suburb of Egaleo. Police have blocked off the area and a special bomb disposal unit has arrived on the scene. The caller contacted a news site in the morning of Wednesday and warned an explosive device would go off at Davakis Square at bank branch in the suburb of Egaleo in western Attica.
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German tourist caravan trapped with explosive device in Macedonia!
Greek police are on alert after an explosive device was detected on a German couple’s tourist Caravan in the city of Alexandreia in the region of Imathia in Macedonia, Thursday morning.