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Bomb threat at Columbine High
01/03/2007 21:18 - (SA)
Littleton - Columbine High School, site of the US's deadliest school massacre eight years ago, was evacuated on Thursday after officials received at least one call about a bomb threat, authorities said.
School officials said Columbine would be closed for the rest of the day.
Jefferson County Sheriff's spokesperson Jacki Kelley said students were being taken to a nearby park while bomb squads and dogs searched the school.
Columbine made international headlines in April 20 1999, when two students shot and killed 13 people before taking their own lives.
Kelley said she believed more than one threat was called in on Thursday morning. She did not know whether the caller made reference to the 1999 attack.
"Most of the threats that have been associated with that school made reference to past events that occurred there," Kelley said. "But a bomb threat to a school is as serious at any school as it is at Columbine."
Columbine has about 1 850 students, said Marlene Desmond, spokesperson for Jefferson County Schools.
- AP
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