BANGKOK, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Thai police are checking bomb threats in Bangkok and nearby province of Nonthaburi Wednesday, police sources told Xinhua.
The bomb threats made on Wednesday targeted about four sites across Bangkok and Nontaburi, where eight coordinated explosions took place on New Year's Eve and around midnight last Sunday, killing three persons and injuring 38 others.
More than 1,000 students and teachers at the Kingphet School on Phetchaburi Road in central Bangkok have been evacuated shortly before noon on Wednesday after it received bomb threats, Thai media reported.
Police are currently investigating the school to check whether the threats were real or just hoax, as earlier cases turned out in the wake of the New Year's Eve bombings.
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration spokesman Puthipong Poonakan was quoted by English-language paper Bangkok Post as saying that an administrative officer at the school received two phone calls from a mysterious man at 11:10 a.m. (0410GMT) and 10 minutes later, saying that a bomb was planted on the school ground. The caller said the bomb would be detonated at 1 p.m.
After the threat call, the school announced that it would close on Wednesday. Parents were allowed to take their children home.
No bomb has yet been found nearly two hours after the deadline.
Puthipong warned over 400 schools in Bangkok to take caution and strictly ban unrelated people from entering the school compounds to prevent possible bomb attacks.
Thai media group The Nation also reported that they received a bomb threat over phone early Wednesday afternoon. The caller told the media group to evacuate people in its building in Bangkok, where he claimed to have planted three bombs to explode in three hours, saying that he only wanted to create property damage, rather than harm people.
The caller said he did so because he was dissatisfied with the media's biased news reports against ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, according to the report posted on The Nation's Englishnews website.
