Threatening emails that caused concern last month on the Virginia Tech campus originated in South America, authorities said. Warnings were issued to the campus Aug. 29 after threatening emails arrived at dozens of campus email addresses that afternoon. A campus police spokesman said then in an email: “We take all threats seriously.”An email was issued campus-wide to make the Virginia Tech community aware and to ask that any information be shared, the spokesman said. People at four other universities had received the same email, according to campus police. A report in a campus newspaper said at least some of the emails threatened violence on campus.

Source: Washington Post September 11, 2016 05:15 UTC