In a series of tweets, Cornell University in Ithaca asked students, staff and visitors to leave some university buildings and avoid the central campus after local police received a phone warning of bombs placed in those buildings..
The Columbia Spectator student newspaper said that Columbia University in New York City, which has 31,000 students, also evacuated three buildings after receiving bomb warnings..
The newspaper said in a tweet on Twitter, “The university advises people to stay away from these buildings until further notice“.
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