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Police swoop on Virginia Tech
18/04/2007 15:43 - (SA)
Blacksburg - Police with assault
rifles descended on a building at grieving Virginia Tech
university on Wednesday, responding to a security alert just
two days after a student killed 32 people and then himself.
"We're not going to get into exactly what that is," said
Corinne Geller, a state police spokesperson.
"It was not a bomb
threat."
Geller said there had been a telephone call reporting
suspicious activity at Burruss Hall.
"The suspicious activity was unfounded," she said.
Staff were evacuated from Burruss Hall, next door to Norris
Hall where most of the victims died in Monday's shooting
rampage, various media outlets reported.
CNN quoted the university's public relations office as
saying it was a "suspicious event".
"Everything is okay," a campus police official told
reporters.
- Reuters
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