Over 30,000 evacuated in Moscow on Monday due to bomb threats

MOSCOW. Dec 10 (Interfax) - Over a hundred facilities received bomb threats in Moscow on Monday, an informed source told Interfax on Tuesday.

"More than 30,000 people were evacuated over the course of the day as the threats were being checked," the source said.

"Bomb threats were received by more than 65 educational and healthcare establishments, about 25 shopping malls, and 15 district courts on Monday," it said.

The Christ the Savior Cathedral received its third bomb threat in the past seven days, the source said.

None of the bomb threats proved genuine, it said.

Interfax reported earlier that about 600 facilities had received bomb threats in Moscow last week, and about 110,000 people had to be evacuated.

The wave of false bomb alarms started in Moscow and St. Petersburg on November 28. Courts of the two cities were the first to receive the threats.