{"id":81675,"date":"2013-06-20T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37990"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:57:37","slug":"fukuoka-tower-gets-bomb-threat-school-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-tower-gets-bomb-threat-school-evacuated\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Tower Gets Bomb Threat, School Evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 19, the Fukuoka Prefectural Police received an e-mail threatening to bomb Fukuoka Tower at 10:00 on June 20. The Police notified Fukuoka Tower of the threat, which decided not to open as usual at 9:30. As a precautionary measure, 540 students were evacuated from the nearby Momochihama Elementary School. A Nishitetsu bus that runs near the Tower was also temporarily re-routed. Once Fukuoka Tower confirmed the safety of the premises, it opened just before noon. The Sawara Police Station is investigating the threat as a case of forcible obstruction of business. Source: Asahi.com, June 20.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Fukuoka_Tower.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-37991\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Fukuoka_Tower.jpg?w=640\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Fukuoka_Tower.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Fukuoka_Tower.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Fukuoka_Tower.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 19, the Fukuoka Prefectural Police received an e-mail threatening to bomb Fukuoka Tower at 10:00 on June 20. The Police notified Fukuoka Tower of the threat, which decided not to open as usual at 9:30. As a precautionary measure, 540 students were evacuated from the nearby Momochihama Elementary School. A Nishitetsu bus that runs near the Tower was also temporarily re-routed. Once Fukuoka Tower confirmed the safety of the premises, it opened just before noon. The Sawara Police Station is investigating the threat as a case of forcible obstruction of business. Source: Asahi.com, June 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81675","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}