Story highlights The Royal Canadian Mounted Police received a bomb threat by faxRoughly 19,000 students attend the 63 schools on the island(CNN) All schools on Canada's Prince Edward Island were evacuated Wednesday "due to a potential threat," Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement. The RCMP received a fax Wednesday morning with a message saying that bombs had been placed in several P.E.I. schools and would be detonated the same day but did not specify which ones, RCMP Sgt. Within 10 minutes of receiving the initial threat, all schools had been notified and had begun evacuations. Roughly 19,000 students attend the 63 schools on the island province in eastern Canada.

Source: CNN September 21, 2016 14:32 UTC