Caloocan school to resume classes Tuesday p.m. after bomb hoax

MANILA, Philippines—An elementary school in Caloocan City is to resume classes Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat earlier in the morning turned out to be a hoax.

Rustica Lorenzo, principal of the Pangarap Elementary School, announced that classes would resume on Tuesday afternoon.

“The police did not find a sign of a bomb in our school, so classes will resume this afternoon,” Lorenzo said in a telephone interview.

Lorenzo said that security has been tightened at the Pangarap Elementary School following the threat.

She said that she received a text at around 5:40 a.m. Tuesday from a number she recognized, which said, “Sasabog ang paaralan ninyo anumang oras o araw ngayon (Your school will explode any time or any day).”

Students who arrived early for classes were told to stay in a nearby covered court first as the school was searched for bombs. Lorenzo said the parents accompanying students to school eventually decided to just take them back home.

Caloocan Police deputy chief for operations, Senior Superintendent Ferdinand Rosario, said that SWAT and bomb teams were sent to the school, but they found no explosive devices.

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