VICTORIA Police has decline to comment on whether Horsham schools were on a list of locations allegedly targeted for bomb hoaxes by a Victorian teenager.
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On Thursday night, Victoria Police said they had arrested 17-year-old Victorian Boy over bomb hoaxes were allegedly made to various education facilities throughout Victoria, NSW and South Australia between May 2016 and April 2017.
Horsham Primary School’s 298 campus was evacuated in December after a hoax call.
Students and staff were removed from the school for more than two hours while police searched the campus.
At the time, police said the hoax was linked to other similar incidents occurring across Victoria.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said she could not give further details on the arrest, including the names of the nine Victorian schools involved, as the matter was now before the courts.
Other news reports have linked the Horsham school bomb hoaxes with the Victorian boy’s arrest.
In February last year, Horsham Primary School was evacuated after an alleged bomb threat that later turned out to be a hoax.
On Thursday afternoon Victoria Police confirmed that 18-year-old Israeli-American man Michael Ron David Kadar, had been charged by Israeli authorities with making 2000 automated bomb and shooting hoax calls to schools, airlines, hospitals and Jewish centres in the US, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Israel.
A Victoria police spokeswoman said the Israeli case did involve alleged bomb hoaxes across Victoria and Australia, but not in the Wimmera region.
- with Reuters