The email asked parents and caregivers to pick up their children.<\/p>\n
Christchurch Girls\u2019 High School was placed into a lockdown shortly before 10am after receiving a \u201cthreatening email\u201d.<\/p>\n
The school said the Ministry of Education had advised the lockdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring this period the police were onsite and have assured us that we are safe to resume normal operations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three police cars were seen at the school.<\/p>\n
Christchurch Girls’ High School went into a precautionary lockdown. Photo \/ Anna Heath <\/p>\n
The lockdown was lifted at around 10.30am, with an email being sent to parents and caregivers that everyone on site was \u201csafely accounted for\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Ara Institute evacuated its campuses in Timaru and Christchurch after a bomb threat was received. <\/p>\n
Concerned parents have taken to social media, saying that Fairburn School and Bairds Mainfreight Primary School had also received threats.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely the scariest text\/email to see, almost ended up in tears,\u201d one parent wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThreat or not, can\u2019t take things lightly when it\u2019s our babies involved,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n
Another parent said they saw cars \u201cspeeding to get their kids\u201d from school.<\/p>\n
Police and the Ministry of Education have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n
Teenage boy charged after nationwide online bomb threat investigation<\/p>\n
In May, police arrested a teenager in Invercargill as part of an investigation into bomb threats sent to educational and public sites across New Zealand.<\/p>\n
At the time, public and educational facilities around Auckland, including Unitec and the Auckland Art Gallery<\/a>, were evacuated after a wave of threatening emails<\/a>.<\/p>\n Acting on information gathered by Auckland-based detectives, Southland police searched an Invercargill residential address.<\/p>\n Southland area commander Mike Bowman said at the time the teenage boy was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n He was charged with two counts of threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm. <\/p>\n Bowman said at the time it was unlikely the young person could have followed through on the threats.<\/p>\n \u201cRegardless, threats of this nature are taken extremely seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The email asked parents and caregivers to pick up their children. Christchurch Girls\u2019 High School was placed into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,95,1975,1558,1556,50924,5760,8456,305,174300,1304,2510,117,111,43,139,69,72024,19764,6649,39541,1961,26452,80],"class_list":["post-490732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-and","tag-at","tag-been","tag-bomb","tag-evacuations","tag-force","tag-fresh","tag-have","tag-lockdowns","tag-morning","tag-multiple","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-organisations","tag-received","tag-schools","tag-spate","tag-this","tag-threats","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}