Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Quinsigamond Community College Bomb Threat Closes School

Students were notified of the bomb threat in a text alert.

WORCESTER, MA — Update, 5:40 p.m.: The Worcester Telegram and Gazette's Steve Foskett is reporting that Quinsigamond Community College has taken down the alert, but that evening classes are canceled.

Original post: Quinsigamond Community College was closed Wednesday afternoon for a bomb threat, according to a text message alert sent out to students.

Several students took to Twitter and posted screenshots of a text alert sent to students. It read:

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QCC Alert 3/30/16

Please leave the Boylston St main campus in an orderly fashion at this time. We have received a bomb threat and we are closing the college.

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