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Breaking: Police evacuate Cairns high school after threat reported
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- A Cairns high school is one of several properties evacuated during police investigations of a threat.
- Emergency services were called to the scene after 9:25am following reports of a threat and students, as well as those in surrounding buildings, were evacuated.
- Police evacuated the school and surrounding buildings, setting up an exclusion zone.
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A Cairns high school is one of several properties evacuated during police investigations of a threat. (ABC News: Miriam Mazurek-Kaminska)
Link copied Share Share article Police have made an emergency declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) following an ongoing incident at a Cairns high school this morning.
Emergency services were called to the scene after 9:25am following reports of a threat and students, as well as those in surrounding buildings, were evacuated.
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