Police evacuate all schools on Canada’s Prince Edward Island

Students at all primary and secondary schools across Prince Edward Island were taken to safe locations, federal police said, while Nova Scotia police received an anonymous bomb threat against three university campuses in the province.

Some 60 schools and universities in eastern Canada were evacuated Wednesday over an unspecified possible threat, police said.

Police said nothing suspicious was found after officers searched the schools.

Schools in Winnipeg were also threatened on Wednesday, but police there said “early indications are that the threat is unfounded”. Schools across the island have been given the go-ahead to resume classes Thursday.

The force said there were no reports of any injuries.

The college’s Marconi campus in Sydney, Nova Scotia also shut down.

“The message stated that the bombs had been placed in a number of schools and would be detonated today but it did not specify the time”, Bailey said. “But we have procedures and plans and I’m confident we followed them”, he said, adding that the schools would review their emergency process in case of a future evacuation.

“The minister of public safety just informed me that all of the schools’ children and personnel are safe and the situation is under control”, the prime minister said.

Students were bussed home at around 10:30 a.m.

“Based on the similarities between the nature of our threat and the ones on the coast, we were leaning to the conclusion that the threat here was unfounded”, said Carver.

Parker Grimmer, director of the P.E.I. “I know that the affected parents must be having a very hard day”.

“Parents need to meet their children at these safe areas”.

“It was a weird scene to see”.

– By Aly Thomson and Alison Auld in Halifax.