Several US state capitol buildings evacuated over multiple bomb threats sent by email
- ‘I placed multiple explosives inside of your State Capitol … I will make sure you all end up dead,’ the email read
- No explosives were found as police swept the capitols in Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Montana
Several state capitol buildings across the United States were evacuated on Wednesday over multiple bomb threats, according to officials, one of whom said a “mass email” was responsible for triggering the security response.
No explosives or threatening items were found as police evacuated and swept the statehouses in Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Montana following an apparent hoax threat, officials and local media reported.
“While everyone is safe, KSP (Kentucky State Police) has asked everyone to evacuate the state Capitol and is investigating a threat received by the Secretary of State’s Office,” Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Michon Lindstrom, a spokesman for Kentucky’s secretary of state, said the threat was in the form of a “mass email” sent out to multiple secretaries of state across the country, according to the Lexington Herald Leader, a local newspaper.
“I placed multiple explosives inside of your State Capitol. The explosives [sic] are well hidden inside and they will go off in a few hours. I will make sure you all end up dead,” the email read.