Wave of Bomb Hoaxes Tests Uruguay’s Security and Public Trust

Wave of Bomb Hoaxes Tests Uruguay’s Security and Public Trust

Uruguayan authorities evacuated multiple public spaces last week after seven bomb threats targeted shopping centers, universities, and medical facilities. The threats arrived via phone calls and emails, including a Sunday message warning of explosives at Montevideo’s Mercado Agrícola, which forced a one-hour closure. Similar alerts disrupted Portones Shopping and the Catholic University of Uruguay, halting […]

The Uruguayan police investigate a series of bomb threats that affected more than a dozen public and private institutions in Montevideo and other cities. In two weeks, 25 cases were recorded, leading to evacuations in universities, shopping and official buildings. The threats were made by telephone calls and emails. On Monday, the Catholic University of Uruguay had to evacuate its headquarters in Montevideo, Punta del Este and Salto. Also affect…

A wave of threats of attacks on public agglomeration sites has kept Uruguay in check, where for more than a week multiple warnings caused a series of evacuations in the capital and other cities. The cases, which are still under investigation and for which there are already three persons prosecuted, turned out to be false alarms, [...] The post Threats of attacks shake the calm of Uruguay appeared first on Diario Digital Cronio de El Salvador.