Bosnian hospitals and schools targeted by hundreds of fake bomb threats

A whole bunch of colleges and public establishments in Bosnia are coping with a barrage of hoax bomb threats, forcing them to briefly shut down.

Among the many public establishments focused on Thursday had been the Nationwide Electoral Fee and several other courts in Sarajevo. All of them needed to evacuate and wait to be instructed the coast was clear earlier than resuming enterprise.

One in all Bosnia's largest hospitals was additionally focused on Thursday. A number of hundred sufferers and workers on the college hospital in Banja Luke had been instructed to go away resulting from an electronic mail menace.

After looking the hospital, Bosnian police stated in a public assertion that it had been a false alarm. "It is a despicable assault", hospital director Vlado Djajic instructed reporters on Thursday.

On Wednesday greater than 400 colleges had been focused by an identical emailed bomb warnings, which claimed attackers deliberate to "blow up the varsity" and kill "hundreds of Serbian kids".

The authorities don't but know who's behind the threats. Faculties and airports in Serbia and Montenegro have additionally not too long ago skilled an onslaught of pretend bomb threats.