9 Halton schools receive bomb threats, school searches underway - BERITAJA

Several schools crossed Halton Region received anonymous explosive threats Thursday morning, according to police.

The threats were sent to some the Halton District School Board and the Halton Catholic District School Board, Halton Regional Police said successful a societal media post.

Hold and unafraid measures person not been implemented, but constabulary said that location will beryllium an accrued serviceman beingness astatine each location while schoolhouse spot 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

The investigation remains ongoing.

The threats came conscionable days aft respective schools crossed Toronto besides received a series of explosive threats.

Toronto constabulary antecedently told BERITAJA that “a number of schools passim Toronto” received threats by telephone Tuesday morning, which investigators believed came from the aforesaid individual.