A Connecticut high school student was arrested for allegedly making a bomb at home and taking it to school in the latest of a series of threats at US schools.
Police in New Canaan, Connecticut, said the student arrested and charged was the second New Canaan teenager in four days to be arrested for threatening violence at school. On Friday, a boy was charged with threatening to take a gun to his middle school to shoot two students.
Police had found four other explosive devices at the home of the boy, who was not identified. The devices were destroyed by bomb experts, police said.
The Connecticut arrests capped a series of threats involving children across the country since shootings last week at schools in California and Pennsylvania.
Schools in California and North Carolina have also received threats. One was sent to the site of the California shooting by a Maryland teen-ager.
New Canaan police said the teen-ager arrested on Monday was charged with the manufacture of a bomb, possession of explosives and reckless endangerment. He was being detained in Bridgeport, Connecticut, pending an appearance in juvenile court.
The student arrested on Friday had threatened to take his father's revolver to Saxe Middle School to shoot two fellow students, police said. He was charged with two counts of threatening and released into the custody of his parents pending arraignment in juvenile court.
Police said the gun belonged to the boy's father, was not loaded and was secured by a gun lock.