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Facebook Buildings in Menlo Park Evacuated Over Bomb Threat

The police is investigating a bomb threat in one of Facebook's buildings in Menlo Park in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, the United States, after it was evacuated, local media reported.
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Bomb threat in one of the buildings on Facebook campus in Menlo Park, California, has not been confirmed, Menlo Park Police Department said in a statement.

"The San Mateo County bomb unit was dispatched with explosive detection dogs that conducted a sweep of the building and found no suspicious packages or devices," the police said.

The building is clear and secure, it added.

Earlier, the police responded to a bomb threat that forced an evacuation of at least one building on the Facebook campus. The police reportedly received an anonymous phone call on the bomb threat.

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A company spokesman later said that Facebook was looking into a bomb threat at its headquarters campus in Menlo Park, Reuters reported.

The spokesman also said that several buildings were evacuated.

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