Bomb threats roil in France and Italy

Three schools in France were evacuated Thursday following bomb alerts, which were later found to be false.

According to French daily Le Parisien, the evacuations took place at three educational institutions in Marseille in southern France, in Morez in eastern France, and Laon, a town in northeastern France.

The French Ministry of National Education confirmed to Le Parisien that three bomb alerts were reported on Thursday, but ruled out any "mass phenomenon."

The incidents come amid a broader wave of bomb threats across Europe in recent days.

In Italy, a series of schools received bomb threat emails, with the provisional figure standing at 1,803 institutions, according to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.