Several schools across Halton Region received anonymous bomb threats Thursday morning, according to police.
The Halton Regional Police Service said officers responded around 6 a.m. after multiple school districts across the region received a generic threatening email.
The threats targeted schools within both the Halton District School Board and the Halton Catholic District School Board, along with private school Appleby College.
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Hold and secure measures have not been implemented, but police said that there will be an increased officer presence at each location while school property is searched.
The schools affected include:
- Oakville Trafalgar High School
- Iroquois Ridge High School
- Abbey Park High School
- White Oaks Secondary School
- Garth Webb Secondary School
- Appleby College
- Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School
- Loyola Catholic Secondary School
- St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School
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Police said officers conducted thorough searches at all affected schools over several hours and found no explosive devices or credible threats to public safety.
The investigation remains ongoing.
The threats came just days after several schools across Toronto also received a series of bomb threats.
Toronto police previously told Global News that “a number of schools throughout Toronto” received threats by phone Tuesday morning, which investigators believed came from the same individual.
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