Schools in North and South Caloocan as well as its city hall were declared ‘clear’ by police after a series of bomb threats Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Along Malapitan announced.
The threats prompted the local chief executive to suspend classes in all public and private schools as well as government offices in the city on Wednesday afternoon.
‘The Caloocan City Police Station declared that all locations mentioned in the bomb threat we received this afternoon were now ‘cleared’,’ Malapitan said in an advisory Wednesday evening.
‘This comes after thorough inspection by our bomb squad in the said locations,’ he explained. Malapitan also announced that classes and government work in Caloocan will resume on Thursday, Oct. 16.
The mayor further noted that he instructed the Caloocan police to again inspect the area and increase their officers’ visibility especially at the city’s schools to calm any concerns from students, teachers and parents. ‘My fellow citizens, let us not make light of this situation because there are corresponding penalties for disturbances like bomb threats,’ Malapitan appealed to the public.
‘We will continue to investigate and determine who is behind this disturbance to our city and we will ensure that they will be held accountable to the law,’ he stressed.