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Bomb alert evacuates boarding students and nearby residents in Lavaur
A suspected bomb at Las Cases high school prompted an overnight search in Lavaur, a town in France’s Tarn department.
The alert followed a suspicious report on the evening of 14 October, when classes had ended but students were still staying at the school’s boarding house.
Boarding students and residents of three nearby streets were evacuated as a precaution.
Police, municipal officers and a specially brought-in sniffer dog searched the school, while the town opened a room for those who had left their homes.
The search ended around 2:30 a.m.
without an apparent bomb being found.
The school was still closed on the morning of 15 October, although evacuation measures and traffic restrictions had been lifted.
The alert disrupted students and nearby residents, but the reported search found no explosive device.
A bomb alert led to the evacuation of the boarding section at Las Cases high school in Lavaur, in France’s Tarn department.
Residents of three nearby streets were also evacuated while gendarmes and municipal police searched the school.
The alert followed a suspicious report about a possible bomb, and no bomb was apparently found.
The search ended at about 2:30 a.m. on October 15, but the school remained closed that morning.
- Who
- Boarding students and residents of three nearby streets were evacuated. Gendarmes, municipal police and a dog handler searched the school.
- What
- A bomb alert prompted evacuations and a search of Las Cases high school.
- When
- The alert came on the evening of October 14, 2026. The search ended around 2:30 a.m. on October 15.
- Where
- Las Cases high school and nearby streets in Lavaur, Tarn, France.
- Why
- Authorities received a suspicious report about a possible bomb at the school.
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Gendarmes received a suspicious report about a possible bomb at Las Cases high school.
Boarding students and residents of three nearby streets were evacuated as authorities searched the school.
The search ended and the situation returned to normal.
The school remained closed.
- School
- Las Cases high school
- Location
- Lavaur, Tarn, France
- Evacuated boarding students
- 38
- Nearby streets
- Rue de la Mairie, rue des Doctrinaires and rue du Palais
- Search ended
- Around 2:30 a.m. on October 15, 2026
3 sources
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What people are saying
The gendarmerie treated this report with caution and prudence
The boarding students had to be evacuated
As soon as we received the alert, the town opened a room to accommodate the boarding students and residents