Kids and teachers ordered to stay indoors after chilling emails warn of mass shootings at high schools
Cops searched all the schools while students and teachers were told not to leave the sites
POLICE put at least a dozen schools across Germany into lockdown today after they received chilling threats by email.
At least nine schools in the eastern city of Leipzig were emailed threats, a police spokesman said, without giving details of the content of the messages.
Investigators were searching the premises while students and teachers were told not to leave the site.
Schools in the western city of Goettingen as well as the eastern city of Magdeburg also reported receiving similar messages.
However, the police investigation suggested that the "threats are not serious," a spokesman said.
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