CORNELL University law school has been evacuated as a staff and students shelter was put in place following a bomb threat.
Cops have confirmed they received calls about bombs being placed in the Law School, Goldwin Smith, Upson Hall and Kennedy Hall, according to a Twitter message from the university.
An emergency safety warning was made at the Ivy League university campus in Ithaca, New York, this afternoon.
Columbia University also issued an emergency alert with unconfirmed reports of a bomb threat.
“On Sunday, November 7, at approximately 2:30 p.m., #ColumbiaUniversity Public Safety issued a campus-wide emergency alert after receiving bomb threats at University buildings.” read a tweet by the University.
The NYPD is investigating.
Carman Hall, Lerner Hall, and Butler Hall have been evacuated.
The University is advising people stay away from those buildings until further notice.
The authorities have not linked the two threats to the universities.
At about 2.20pm ET, New York’s Cornell University sent out a tweet informing people to evacuate and avoid certain areas on the campus.
The tweet read: “CornellALERT: EVACUATE AND AVOID THE LAW SCHOOL,GOLDWIN SMITH, UPSON HALL AND KENNEDY HALL PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE CORNELL POLICE UNLESS YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY”.
Another police alert read: “ALERT: for the Ithaca campus. Avoid central campus. Evacuate areas in or nearby the Law School, Goldwin Smith, Upson Hall and Kennedy Hall.”
The Cornell twitter announced that Ithaca Law Enforcement is investigating the threat. “Security perimeter is in place. Continue to avoid central campus.”
One user responded to the university’s tweet, saying: “I’ve heard from a current student that there is a bomb threat around Goldwin smith and an active shooter at the law school. I don’t know anything about Upson or Kennedy.”
A number of roads and pathways are currently blocked with yellow caution tape and police and state troopers have been spotted on Feeney Way, according to the Cornell Sun.
Ithaca’s mayor Svante Myrick warned people to avoid the area in a Twitter message.
He said: “Multiple agencies, including IPD’s SWAT are responding.
“Please avoid the campus for the time being and follow @Cornell for real time updates.”
In a Twitter update from the Columbia Daily Spectator it said: “People have been let back into Butler Hall, a University-owned residential building, that had been evacuated.”
Yale University put out a similar alert on November 5 after Yale police received calls of bombs being placed in a number of the university’s buildings.
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