Halifax’s Cole Harbour High latest victim in string of hoax bomb threats

Halifax district RCMP say an early morning bomb threat at Cole Harbour high school was a hoax.

Cole Harbour High School students and staff were forced to leave the school after a bomb threat was called in around 7:15 a.m.

By 9:30 a.m. police had finished their search and found nothing suspicious.

Students arriving at the school were being sent to Cole Harbour Place while police investigated the bomb threat. The school was successfully evacuated by 8:20, according to a post from the Halifax Regional School Board.

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The threat is the sixth bomb threat in two days in the Halifax area. On Sunday police responded to threats at five different places in the city. All of the threats made on Sunday turned out to be hoaxes.

Last week community college campuses in Nova Scotia and public schools on P.E.I. were evacuated following several false bomb threats.