Bomb Threat Disrupts Columbus Target Store

Last updated on Tuesday, September 19, 2017

(COLUMBUS) - A bomb threat led to the evacuation of the Columbus Target store on National Road, but no bomb was located.

Police later determined that Targets across the country received similar threats.

At about 9:45 p.m. Saturday, Columbus police were called to the store. Employees were already evacuating the store as police arrived.

The Columbus police bomb squad search the building and found nothing unusual says Lt. Matt Harris, spokesman for the department.

Harris said police found that several other Target stores across the country received similar threats on Saturday.

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