4 Cebu City schools shortly suspend classes due to bomb threat

A bomb threat forced the momentary suspension of classes at four Cebu City schools on Thursday morning, a city official said.

City Councilor David Tumulak, who is also the chairperson of the committee on disaster risk reduction and management, confirmed the incident to local media.

Tumulak identified the affected schools as the Mambaling Elementary School, Cebu City National Science High School, Hipodromo Elementary School, and Abellana National School.

Classes were ordered to continue after authorities confirmed that the threat was a hoax, he said.

According to Tumulak there were similar incidents last year, and in each the pranksters used the same style of calling or sending text messages to targeted schools, informing officials that an explosive device is planted inside the campus.

Authorities suspect that the same group was behind this morning's bomb threat.

But they said that even though similar bomb threats had happened several times in the past, they always take each incident seriously, and that they are now implementing a plan to track down the perpetrators.

Tumulak advised the public to stay calm in the face of bomb threat and immediately inform authorities and help in building a case against suspects.

Also Tumulak made an appeal to perpetrators not toy around with the people as it can cause too much disturbance to the community. —LBG, GMA News