Hundreds of schools across Italy were evacuated on Wednesday following a wave of hoax bomb threats, though Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated there is no concrete danger to the public.

ROME: Schools were evacuated across Italy on Wednesday following a series of hoax bomb threats, but Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said there was no “concrete danger”.

Similar hoax threats were reported in schools in Britain and Ireland, which prompted some evacuations.

Meloni said she had called a government meeting for Wednesday, with Italian media reporting that 312 schools had received threats.