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Students return to Atlanta’s Washington High School after bomb scare

Nov 2, 2015

Students were allowed back inside Washington High School on Monday after a sweep of the school determined there was no bomb inside the southwest Atlanta building.

“All clear,” police spokeswoman Elizabeth Espy told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an email. “Nothing found. Kids back in school.”

About 10:40 a.m. Monday, students and staff were evacuated while authorities searched the school, she told The AJC. Authorities responded to the school after a receiving a report of a bomb threat, according to police dispatchers.

Washington is at 45 Whitehouse Dr.

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