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Clara Barton High School Students Returning To Class After Bomb Threat
It was the third school bomb threat to cause evacuations in Brooklyn this week.
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Students at Clara Barton High School in Crown Heights are returning to class after their school was evacuated Friday afternoon because of a bomb threat, the NYPD told Patch.
The school was searched for the bomb, with "negative results," an NYPD spokesman said. The bomb threat was called into the school earlier on Friday.
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U/D Brooklyn: 901 Classon Ave, Clara Barton high School evacuated due to a bomb threat, ~~~ 3rd bomb threat in a school this week. pic.twitter.com/HPPJrxw8o8
— NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) March 3, 2017
This was the third school bomb threat to cause evacuations in Brooklyn this week. The John Jay Educational Complex in Park Slope was evacuated Thursday afternoon, and a threat was called in to Midwood High School on Tuesday.
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