Bomb Threat Emails Prompt Evacuations at 300 Italian Schools

WHO:

CNN - A spokesperson for the Italian police described the evacuations and said authorities were investigating the source of the emails.

CNN - A teacher at Rome’s Quirinio Visconti primary school said parents were notified to pick up their children.

BBC News - Officials said schools in multiple Italian cities received emails containing warnings.

CNN - Police Scotland said it was treating threatening emails received by some UK schools as hoaxes.

CNN - Northern Ireland police said they were investigating a concerning email sent to several schools in the region.

CNN - Northern Ireland’s Education Authority said the message resembled a hoax sent to schools the previous month and that it knew of no evidence of a “credible” threat.

WHAT:

ABC News - Italian authorities evacuated around 300 schools following a bomb threat sent by email.

BBC News - Hundreds of Italian schools were hit by threats described as a suspected bomb hoax.

CNN - The Italian police spokesperson said emails were sent to hundreds of schools, but the exact number evacuated was undetermined because each school decided when to evacuate based on advice from its local police branch.

CNN - Dozens of kindergarten and primary school children at Quirinio Visconti primary school had a day off after the school was evacuated.

CNN - Police Scotland advised schools that the emails alone did not warrant evacuation.

CNN - Northern Ireland’s Education Authority said the message had been sent to “a large number of schools.”

WHERE:

BBC News - Threat emails were sent to schools in Rome, Naples, Vicenza, Florence, Pisa, Trieste, and other Italian cities.

CNN - Quirinio Visconti primary school in central Rome was evacuated.

CNN - Some schools in the United Kingdom received threatening emails; several schools in Northern Ireland received a concerning email.

WHY:

CNN - The Italian police spokesperson said authorities were investigating who sent the emails and declined to confirm the email address used.

CNN - The Education Authority said it was unaware of evidence that the Northern Ireland message posed a “credible” threat.

HOW:

ABC News - The threat to Italian schools was delivered by email.

CNN - Each Italian school determined when to evacuate after receiving advice from its local police branch.

CNN - Parents of children at Quirinio Visconti primary school were notified to collect them.

(UPDATED November 11, 2026 13:05 UTC)

Hundreds of Italian schools received emailed bomb threats, prompting evacuations, including in Rome. Authorities are investigating who sent the messages; around 300 schools were evacuated. Threatening emails also reached UK schools, but police in Scotland called them hoaxes.