ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Officials at both Cornell and Columbia universities ordered buildings to be evacuated Sunday afternoon after calls about bombs being placed there.
The Ivy League universities posted on their websites that police had received a call that bombs were placed on Campus. Cornell reported threats to the law school building as well as Goldwin Smith Hall, Upson Hall and Kennedy Hall.
Cornell students and visitors were being urged to avoid those four buildings and the Ithaca school’s central campus. Police and SWAT units were responding.
Cornell also tweeted from its accounts in all-caps messages stating, "Avoid central campus. Evacuate areas in or nearby the Law School, Goldwin Smith, Upson Hall and Kennedy Hall. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available."
Columbia also tweeted that the NYPD was investigating bomb threats to university buildings Sunday afternoon.
The relationship of the threats to each school wasn't immediately clear. Bomb threats were called into another Ivy, Yale University, earlier in the week.
The threat to Columbia Sunday was deemed uncredible shortly before 5 p.m., with the campus reopening buildings to students. Cornell at that point had not updated its alert and urged visitors and students to avoid the specific campus buildings targeted.