Terror warning closes school near US embassy in Armenia

Mediamax news agency, Yerevan
19 Nov 04

YEREVAN

Yerevan’s Chekhov School received an anonymous phone call at around
1030 [0630 gmt] this morning that an act of terrorism was being
prepared. The school is in the city centre next to the US embassy.

Teachers and pupils were evacuated as a matter of urgency. At present
the school is surrounded by employees of the law-enforcement agencies
who are investigating the warning.

The law-enforcement agencies are at present refraining from official
comment.