A bomb threat led to the evacuation of a Rome school used as a polling station for expatriate Peruvians voting yesterday in their country’s Presidential elections, Italian media reported.

Authorities received an anonymous telephone call claiming there was a bomb in the Giulio Cesare school, the Ansa news agency reported.

Police evacuated the school and searched the premises but no explosives were found and voters were allowed back into the building to vote, it said.

About 20 million Peruvians are legally obliged to vote for a successor to Alan Garcia, who cannot stand for immediate re-election, as well as 130 lawmakers for the one-chamber Congress.

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