A British school with hundreds of Muslim students evacuated after a bomb threat

Birmingham Live reported that Hamd House School, in Birmingham, was swept by police on the final day of the academic year due to the threat.The school has 450 pupils aged between 11 and 16. It is a private school run with a Muslim ethos.

The bomb threat was sent via email to the school on Tuesday morning, with the school’s regulator, Ofsted, copied into the correspondence.

“School was full, and pupils were celebrating the last day before summer; we were giving out awards and having a day of celebration and fun on this special day, and this was hugely disruptive,” Israr Khan, the school’s proprietor, was quoted as saying by Birmingham Live.