Bomb threats on Biñan school turn out to be hoax

CAMP PACIANO RIZAL, Sta. Cruz Laguna —A university in Biñan City, Laguna, received two bomb threats on Wednesday morning, but these turned out to be hoax, a school official said.

On Wednesday, two employees of the University of Perpetual Help System reported receiving a text message at around 7:30 a.m. that warned of a bomb going off at the school’s Allied Health building.

“The message came from the same (phone) number and was received (by the employees) just about a minute apart,” said Lito Lapinid, the school’s chief of staff, in a phone interview.

This prompted the suspension of the morning classes until bomb experts announced there were no explosives found in the school premises.

In the afternoon, Lapinid said classes resumed only for students at the tertiary level while school employees were not sent home.

“The elementary and high school students were not asked to return (for the afternoon classes) anymore since the governor anyway has declared the suspension of classes in the whole province,” Lapinid said.

Laguna governor E.R. Ejercito suspended classes in all public and private elementary and high schools in the aftermath of typhoon Pedring, his information officer Vic Pambuan told the Inquirer in a text message.

Supt. Leo Luna, city police chief, believed that the bomb threat might have come from former school employees who were retrenched in June. Lapinid said this was possible but he did not elaborate.