Oct 1 (Reuters) - A telephoned bomb threat on Wednesday emptied Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, the replacement for the school where 26 people were massacred in 2012, officials said.
The school in Monroe, Connecticut, received a telephoned bomb threat at 9:39 a.m. EDT, police spokesman Lieutenant Brian McCauley said.
Students were evacuated to a nearby school and dismissed. A check of the Sandy Hook school and grounds turned up nothing and the threat is being investigated, McCauley said.
The school district said in a telephone voice message to parents that all students and staff were safe.
A gunman massacred 20 first-graders and six adults at the Sandy Hook school in nearby Newtown in December 2012 in one of the worst U.S. school shootings. Students were moved to an unused school in Monroe, and the Newtown school was demolished last year.
