Montreal's Villa Maria High School Is Being Evacuated By Police
Emergency alarm has been triggered.
The Montreal Police department has just tweeted out that Villa Maria High School is being evacuated.
According to unconfirmed reports the emergency alarm was triggered and the police have evacuated the building to do some additional safety checks.
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Villa Maria College: Emergency alarm triggered. According to info, unfounded.#SPVM is doing a preventive evacuation for additional checks.
— Police Montréal (@SPVM) September 8, 2017
Of course the last time this happened was at Concordia when a man actually threatened to blow the school up, but so far the cause of this alarm is not known.
We will update this article once more info becomes available.
***UPDATE #1: Students are being redirected to Marianopolis College***
#SPVM still on site. Preventive checks are ongoing. The event remains unfounded.
— Police Montréal (@SPVM) September 8, 2017
The students are redirected to Marianopolis College. https://t.co/fWUPLknKIP
***UPDATE #2: Police Operation is over. Event was unfounded. ***
The #SPVM at #VillaMaria College is over.
— Police Montréal (@SPVM) September 8, 2017
The event is unfounded. https://t.co/PyocFrbDAR