Schools In Nashua, New Hampshire, Closed After ‘Specific’ Threat

A “specific” threat against two high schools in Nashua, New Hampshire, has led officials to close all of the city’s public schools on Monday. School officials say that it’s not uncommon for “prank” threats to come in from students who want to skip class, but that these threats were unnatural in that they appeared to come from overseas.

Superintendent Mark Conrad said the high schools appeared to be the target in the threat, but he determined it was safest for all students to stay home.

“We did that not only because of the nature of the threat, but because of the fact that police couldn’t rule out that it wasn’t credible”, Conrad said.

There are almost 11,500 students, teachers and staff in the town’s 17 schools.

Officials said that because of the specificity of the threat, they wanted to be cautious. The trouble was, the L.A. school administrators did not know that, and they did not want to take any risks weeks after the December 2 shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14. “It was specific in terms of naming the two high schools by name where the action would occur”. “This cancellation has given law enforcement the extra time to conduct extra safety checks of all of Nashua schools and determine that no threats or devices of any type were found”.

The FBI has joined the Nashua Police Department in investigating the threat.

It was just a week ago that Los Angeles County schools were forced to close down consequent to a violet threat.

Last Tuesday, the nation’s largest school districts, NY and Los Angeles, each received threats of a terrorist attack and reacted in sharply different ways.

“We need to make sure that we don’t overreact to fear”, Dallas Police Chief David Brown told Reuters.