US school placed on lockdown


Washington, April 30 (IANS): A high school in Texas, US, was placed on lockdown after a student received a text message that someone carried a weapon on campus.

A male student at the Madison High School in San Antonio received a text message from an unknown number Tuesday morning stating, "I have a weapon," Xinhua reported citing KVUE TV Wednesday. 

The student reported it to a teacher who then informed the school administrator and afterwards the school was placed on lockdown.

The same student then received a second text saying the lockdown was a joke. 

Police searched the campus and found no weapons. The lockdown was lifted several hours later and school resumed as normal.

A 17-year-old female has been arrested.

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: US school placed on lockdown



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.