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High school in Seoul receives hoax bomb threat

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Police special forces search a high school in Daegu on Nov. 10 following a report of a homemade bomb being planted at the site. This image is unrelated to the article. Yonhap

Police special forces search a high school in Daegu on Nov. 10 following a report of a homemade bomb being planted at the site. This image is unrelated to the article. Yonhap

A high school in Seoul received an apparent fake bomb threat Monday that prompted a police search and school-wide evacuation drills, officials said.

Police officers were dispatched to the school in Seoul's northeastern ward of Nowon after receiving a report early in the morning of a social media post threatening to blow up the school at 2 p.m.

Police did not find any explosives after conducting a search before school hours.

The school held evacuation drills out of concerns such threats could reoccur.