Two police officers stand at their vehicle outside a closed school near downtown Los Angeles on Dec. 15, 2015.(Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Schools in Nashua, N.H., will be closed Monday after police there said they had received a report of violent threats aimed at the city's high schools.
A police investigation was ongoing late Sunday, but the district, one of New Hampshire's largest with about 11,500 students, didn't plan to reopen schools until Tuesday, Superintendent Mark Conrad said.
"We have received a detailed threat of violence to harm students and staff at both high schools," Conrad said in a statement released on the district's
website. He said the threat was "specific to tomorrow," but that school officials were still working with police to determine its credibility.
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"Because the threat is specific and extends to several schools," he said, "we will be cautious and close all of our public schools."
He added, "I regret any difficulties this creates for working parents but safety must remain our first priority."
Police said they were working with both state and federal agencies on the investigation.
Last Tuesday, Los Angeles Schools, the USA's second-largest district, abruptly canceled classes for 650,000 students after an email threat; but New York City schools deemed a similar threat a "hoax" and kept schools open.
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New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said a generic email threat was sent to multiple school officials in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. It appeared to originate abroad and probably was not "the usual prank of a student not wanting to take an exam," he said.
L.A. Superintendent Ramon Cortines said that although the district gets threats "all the time," recent events in San Bernardino, about 60 miles east of the city, and elsewhere had elevated the Dec. 15 threat. "I, as superintendent, am not going to take the chance with the life of a student," he said.
About 12 hours after Cortines' action, Mayor Eric Garcetti said it was determined there was not "a credible threat." Schools there reopened Wednesday.
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