Hundreds of schools in Northern Ireland and Scotland received bomb threats leading to evacuations.

Hundreds of schools in Northern Ireland and Scotland received bomb threats leading to evacuations.

Hundreds of schools across Northern Ireland and Scotland received bomb threats, leading to the evacuation of some educational institutions, while a similar wave of threats forced at least 300 schools to evacuate in Italy.

More than 300 schools in Northern Ireland and around 470 in Scotland were targeted by threatening emails. Police Scotland's cyber and fraud unit is investigating the source of the messages, while authorities in Northern Ireland have confirmed that the emails came from outside the UK.