Crime & Safety
Vanderbilt Part Of Nationwide Bomb Threat String
"Five or six" locations on the Vanderbilt campus received a fax form-letter bomb threat, also sent to several other places nationwide.
NASHVILLE, TN — "Five or six" locations on the Vanderbilt University campus received a fax, form-letter-type bomb threat Tuesday, the university announced in a press release.
Vanderbilt notified federal authorities, who are investigating a string of similar threats sent to several places across the country. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)
The university said investigators do not believe the threat to be credible and are working to determine the origin. All of the threats were sent to fax machines or networked printers.
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