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UPDATE: 'All clear' given at Northwest Vista College following bomb threat

Northwest Vista College was locked down due to a bomb threat.

UPDATE: Late Wednesday afternoon, Northwest Vista College gave the all clear after a lockdown was issued and several buildings were evacuated because of a bomb threat.

The threat was called in around 2:40 p.m. Wednesday.

An alert posted to the Northwest Vista's Twitter account called for evacuations of the school's RedBud, Huisache Hall, and Boardwalk because of the unconfirmed threat.

A text was sent to students via the school's alert notification system at 2:51 p.m. That same system had been tested earlier that morning.

An official who spoke to KENS 5 said that everyone at the school was evacuated.

Late Wednesday afternoon, Northwest Vista College issued an update saying that classes in Juniper Hall, Huisache, Redbud, and Boardwalk had all been canceled until 5:30 p.m.

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