TWO UNIVERSITIES EVACUATED AFTER BOMB THREATS

(BlackMediaScoop) The University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University ordered campus buildings evacuated because of bomb threats.

“Immediately evacuate ALL buildings and get as far away as possible,” the University of Texas at Austin says on its website.

Update at 11:41 a.m. ET: “NDSU is requiring all employees and students to leave campus by 10:15 a.m.,” the NDSU alert reads, according to the Star-Tribune reports. “This includes residence hall students, who, if necessary, should walk to locations off campus. The university is located in Fargo, N.D.

Update at 11:39 a.m. ET: Officials at UT-Austin say no bombs have been found.

Update at 11:31 a.m. ET: North Dakota State U. orders all employees, students off campus after receiving bomb threat, the Associated Press reports.

Update at 11:14 a.m. ET: KXAN-TV reports that the university’s Director of Communications, Rhonda Weldon, says the university got a call around 8:35 a.m. local time from a male with a middle eastern accent claiming to have placed bombs all over campus.

The caller claimed to be from the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization and that the bombs would go off in 90 minutes. President Williams Powers has been notified, and officials arenow evacuating all of the buildings out of an abundance of caution.

Update at 11:12 a.m. ET: A UT official tells the American-Statesman that the university had received multiple bomb threats to multiple buildings.