Bomb threats, even fake ones, are NOT funny.
“Senior Insp. Noel Sublay, chief of Explosives and Ordnance Division (EOD) of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), revealed that the bomb threat sent via text messages that disrupted classes on Monday, March 28, at the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) campus in Quezon City was similar to the ones sent to Miriam College in October 2014,” reports Jaymee T. Gamil in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Miriam College is right next to AdMU along Katipunan Avenue. Sublay described the text messages as “jejemon-style.”
An AdMU employee has received the following messages:
“Pagdating ng 9:00 malaking pasabog t2ma. Dguan mga s2dyante nyu (At 9 a.m., there will be a huge explosion. Your students will be left bloodied).”
“H2yaan nyu b bhay ng s2dyante nyu (Will you risk your students’ lives)?”
Sublay noted that “college students were scheduled to take their exams that day.” In fact, it was only the college and grade school students who were holding classes on the AdMU campus when an employee received the bomb threat.
Sublay said, “It’s difficult to determine what the motives are, but you already know [this happens] whenever there are exams.”
AdMU classes were suspended. Students and employees were ordered to leave the premises by 10am. This caused hours of heavy traffic on the northbound lane of Katipunan.
The report noted: “A search of the 84 buildings on the 60-hectare campus kept the QCPD-EOD team — backed up by bomb disposal teams from the National Capital Region Police Office, Philippine National Police and even the Philippine Army — busy until late afternoon. At 2:55 p.m., the school was declared safe and officials allowed the faculty, staff and students to retrieve any belongings they had left behind in any building.”
