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Lockdown lifted in 300 Florida schools (Roundup)
Nov 10, 2010, 20:49 GMT
Washington - One of the largest school systems in the United States with 300 schools spent much of Wednesday on lockdown after receiving a threat, police said.
The Broward County Public Schools in Florida said it had placed its schools on lockdown, but removed the precaution several hours later.
There was no evidence the threat was legitmate, but the measures were taken as a precaution after an e-mail said 'something big was going to happen' around government buildings, the Pembroke Pines police said.
The school system is the sixth largest in the United States with some 257,000 students.
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