Tass news agency reported on September 13 that authorities had received hundreds of anonymous calls in a few hours warning of bombs at many locations in Moscow. The emergency response agency has evacuated people from universities, shopping malls, terminals, airports, hotels, and administrative headquarters for inspection.
"So far, Moscow's emergency response agency has received about 100 bomb warnings," a Russian emergency service official said. More than 50,000 people have been urgently evacuated due to concerns about bombing, according to Tass.
In the initial bulletin, Tass announced that about 20,000 people had been evacuated from about 30 locations in Moscow. As of the morning of September 13, the hotline in the Russian capital has received about 20 calls threatening to have bombs. Police said most of the calls were almost simultaneous and continued.
Most of the warning calls had bombs at Moscow's major shopping malls, train stations such as Leningradsky, Kazansky and Kievsky... schools such as Sechenov University of Medicine and MGIMO University of International Relations... or hotels such as Kosmos, Zvezdnaya and Azimut Hotel Olympic Moscow...
The authorities evacuated people, mobilized special units, police along with domestic dogs to check locations suspected of bombs after receiving warnings.
bomb threats and evacuation activities are also taking place in many cities across Russia, stretching from Petropavlovsk- Kamchatsky in the Far East, through Siberia to Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea, according to Bloomberg. More than 45,000 people have been evacuated from airports, schools and government buildings across Russia over the past two days due to a series of bomb threats, Bloomberg reported.
Meanwhile, RIA Novosti news agency quoted an unnamed source in the security force as saying that on September 12, 45,000 people were evacuated from 205 buildings in 22 cities in Russia. According to the news agency, anonymous calls with bombs come from the internet lottery system and it is not easy to track them down.
Many sources said that the origin of these calls may be from Ukraine.
