Two elite Ivy League universities in New York state evacuated parts of their campuses on Sunday after receiving threats that bombs were placed inside several buildings. A third school in Rhode Island also reported a bomb threat.
In a series of tweets, Cornell University in Ithaca told students, staff and visitors to immediately leave the law school, Goldwin Smith, Upson Hall and Kennedy Hall and to avoid central campus after local police received a call about bombs being put in those buildings.
"Please do not call the Cornell Police unless you have an emergency," the private school of 21,000 students said.
Columbia University in New York City, which has 31,000 students, also evacuated three buildings after it received bomb threats, the Columbia Spectator student newspaper reported.
"The University advises that people stay away from those buildings until further notice," the newspaper said in a tweet, relaying an alert sent out from the school.
Later, the Columbia Daily Spectator tweeted that Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island also had received a bomb threat: "BREAKING: Two hours after the threats at Columbia and Cornell, Brown University has announced a bomb threat in multiple buildings on its campus."
On Friday, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, also an Ivy League school, received bomb threats that were later found not to be credible.
Newsmax staff contributed to this report.
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