Italian authorities evacuated around 300 schools on Wednesday after receiving a bomb threat by email, ABC News reported. The wire report gave the figure as approximate.
BBC News reported that emails containing false warnings were sent to schools in Rome, Naples, Vicenza, Florence, Pisa, Trieste and other Italian cities, citing officials. Its headline described the episode as a suspected bomb hoax and said hundreds of schools had been hit by threats.
The two reports differ on scale. The BBC News headline refers to hundreds of schools hit by threats, while ABC News reported that around 300 schools were evacuated. Neither summary states how many schools received threats in total or how many were evacuated in each city.
The reports do not say who sent the emails or what investigators have found. BBC News described the warnings as false, citing officials, while ABC News described them as a bomb threat sent by email.
Further details were not available in the summaries of either report reviewed for this story.
Sources: BBC News: Hundreds of Italian schools hit by threats in suspected bomb hoax; ABC News: Some 300 Italian schools evacuated due to bomb threats.