Bowdoin College evacuated some of its buildings on Monday due to an anonymous threat made against its library later determined to be a hoax, extremely similar to the bomb threat that caused Colby College to evacuate buildings on the same day.
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According to an email to students obtained by WCME, the college received an anonymous message threatening their library.
In response, the campus safety and security officers evacuated the relevant buildings.
Campus safety officers soon learned that the threat was a hoax, and Bowdoin allowed people to return to the affected buildings.
Bowdoin did not reveal the nature of the threat or how it was determined to be a hoax, but the circumstances mirrored a similar situation at Colby College in Waterville on the same day.
An anonymous person emailed a bomb threat to the college regarding their libraries, prompting buildings to be evacuated and sparking a police response.
Local police swept the buildings and found that the threat was not credible, and the Maine State Police initiated an investigation into the origin of the threat.
The motive behind both hoax threats remains mysterious, and the investigations are ongoing.
In an apparently unrelated incident, the Southern Maine Community College in South Portland locked down on Tuesday after an armed man came onto campus threatening suicide.
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Police were able to persuade the man to surrender his weapon, and the lockdown was lifted.
