The University of Texas at El Paso is being evacuated due to an anonymous threat.
UTEP said in a statement Tuesday that it had ordered a campus-wide evacuation and canceled evening classes. Students were seen hurrying away from buildings Tuesday afternoon.
UTEP Police Chief Cliff Walsh said about an hour after the threat that the campus was considered safe.
The El Paso Times reports that students and staff received a text message at about 2 p.m. saying: “The university has a bomb threat please evacuate the university campus.” Police were seen swarming the school.
UTEP officials would not comment on the details of the threat or when it was received.
El Paso is a U.S.-Mexico border city in far West Texas. UTEP has more than 22,000 students enrolled.