Hundreds of Asian students at Harvard get email death threats
Hundreds of Asian students get emails vowing to kill them, which police believe were sent from outside the US and 'may not be credible'
Asian students at Harvard University say they remain shaken after hundreds of them received emailed death threats, even though police said there was probably no danger.
Students and affiliates received the emails on Friday and police at the university in Cambridge, in the US state of Massachusetts, said they were continuing to investigate. The posts probably originated overseas and "the threat may not be credible", police spokesman Steven Catalano said.
The text of the first emails said: "I'm going to kill every one of you, I promise you, slit-eyes." The recipients were mainly women with Asian surnames. Students later received updates from Harvard police, along with offers of mental-health resources from faculty and student groups.
At the weekend, the same students received another email purporting to apologise for the threats.
"I still feel uncomfortable walking around, myself," said Michelle Chan, a fourth-year student who received one of the threatening emails. "I'm not 100 per cent over it. It's still on my mind."
Boston-area residents have been on an elevated state of alert since a pair of homemade bombs were set off at the city's marathon in April 2013, killing three people and injuring 260.