Hundreds of Italian schools were evacuated Wednesday after receiving bomb threat emails in a coordinated cyber-attack that triggered a nationwide precautionary response.
The emails allegedly contained bomb threats, prompting immediate evacuations across major cities including Rome, Naples and Florence.
The Education Ministry said the incidents were likely a coordinated cyber-attack designed to cause alarm, not a genuine security risk, and no concrete danger has been confirmed.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni convened a meeting with top ministers and intelligence chiefs, while regional officials reported that checks in affected areas have so far yielded no evidence of real threats, allowing most students to return to class shortly after the alerts.
A separate wave of hoax threats targeted schools in Northern Ireland and Scotland, though Italian officials have not linked those cases to the domestic incidents.