Investigation underway into threats made to schools across UK
An investigation is underway into a series of malicious threats made to schools across the UK.
Six schools in Northern Ireland have reportedly been evacuated after receiving "malicious calls" on Tuesday morning.
Bloomfield Primary School in Bangor received a call at around 9.20am and an evacuation of the school premises was ordered.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said that the incidents are not thought to be terrorism related, but inquiries are ongoing.
PSNI added that it is liaising with other UK police forces who are investigating similar calls, to investigate who is responsible and establish whether the incidents are connected.
Police Scotland said threats made to several schools in Edinburgh and Glasgow on Tuesday morning do not appear to be credible, but it is treating them seriously.
The threats to schools in Northern Ireland and Scotland follow a series of suspected bomb hoaxes to schools in England on Monday.
More than a thousand children had to be evacuated from four schools in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.
Meanwhile one school in Kent reported that they had received a call threatening to 'behead children'.
Earlier in the year, schools across the West Midlands had to be evacuated after a series of bomb threats.
Four schools in Oldbury and Halesowen were evacuated on 19 January.
A week later two of those schools were targeted again by threatening calls, in addition to four others.
A Russian twitter group claimed responsibility for the hoax bomb calls.