By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff

NDSS students evacuated over non-credible bomb threat

Oct 24, 2017 | 4:41 PM

NANAIMO — Classes at Nanaimo District Secondary School were disrupted after a bomb threat was made in graffiti. 

Assistant Superintendent of secondary Schools Scott Saywell told NanaimoNewsNOW the “worrisome graffiti pertaining to a bomb threat” was discovered and the school was then evacuated Tuesday morning.

Saywell couldn’t clarify details about what was in the graffiti but confirmed it was a low-level threat. “We make the decision to evacuate the school with an abudance of caution,” he said. 

The threat was found to be non-credible by Nanaimo RCMP and district staff and students were back inside by 12:15. 

Saywell said when talking to students after a fake threat is called in, what staff hear most is how annoyed students are by the disruption.

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“They just see it as a waste of time. From what I’ve heard from kids directly, they hope we find the culprit.” 

The most recent bomb threat at NDSS was in March, 2017.

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