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Unverified reports of bomb threats circulated on various social media platforms Monday morning, leading to the suspension of classes in some schools and work in government offices, including the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Several netizens also went online to share their anxious thoughts about it.
The threat reportedly stemmed from a suspicious email sent by a certain Takahiro Karasawa, who identified himself as a Japanese lawyer, at 3:50 a.m. on Feb. 12. It was addressed to a school in Bataan associated with the Department of Education (DepEd).
“I set high-performance bombs in major Philippine government offices. Those bombs will explode at approximately 3:34 p.m. on February 12. Unlike previous bomb threats, it really explodes and many people die,” he wrote.
His message also had an anarchistic tone. “What color is the sky? It is time, all human beings, to reclaim your freedom. I’m watching the 20 years later of you. Power to a voiceless voice,” Karasawa said.
A cursory Google search of the sender’s name yielded similar stories of hoax emails that also happened in other countries. The Korea Times, a newspaper based in Seoul, South Korea, reported about the same bomb threat last year, which targeted government offices in that country.
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