Bomb Hoax Forces Evacuation of English Racetrack
An anonymous bomb threat forced authorities to evacuate an English horse racing track Saturday (Nov. 18), but police found nothing suspicious.
Security officials at Lingfield Park Racecourse, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of
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An anonymous bomb threat forced authorities to evacuate an English horse racing track Saturday (Nov. 18), but police found nothing suspicious.
Security officials at Lingfield Park Racecourse, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of London, canceled the final race of the day after receiving a telephoned bomb threat.
It was the second such false alarm this week in England. On Wednesday, a similar threat forced authorities to shut down horse racing at the Hexham Racecourse in northern England.
“We received a call and the security team acted upon that,” said Lingfield’s clerk of the course, Neil Mackenzie Ross, who confirmed that police searchers found nothing suspicious.”We took the decision with the stewards to abandon the last race as we obviously didn’t know how the long the situation would last and the light was fading
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