NAGA CITY—A bomb threat that forced the suspension of classes in a public elementary school has been declared a “prank” by police investigators.
Superintendent Elcid Roldan, officer-in-charge of NCPO, said in a phone interview Monday afternoon that investigators failed to find any bomb within the school compound of Don Manuel Abella Elementary School in Barangay Cararayan.
Two teachers of the school had alerted the police at 9 a.m. that they received text messages in their cell phones, saying a bomb would explode anytime.
But when police rang the number of the unknown sender, the latter hung up.
Classes in the school, which has a student population of around 1,000, were suspended while a K-9 dog and bomb expert were brought in to clear the area.
Roldan said that after determining the bomb threat was a prank, classes in the school were already suspended the whole day.
“Maybe the prankster is riding on the situation after the tragedy in Mindanao,” he said, referring to the tense situation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, where 44 Special Action Force members were massacred in an encounter with Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels on January 25.
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