Bags trigger School 11 evacuation

Friday, March 28, 2008

Students were evacuated from Jersey City's School 11, on Bergen Avenue, and a bomb squad brought in after a security guard spotted two suspicious backpacks yesterday.

The guard saw the brand-new-looking bags, one red, one blue, in an alley between school property and a Hudson Community College parking lot at about 10:30 a.m. The bags looked "weighted down," said School 11 principal Chester Kaminski.

Cops and a bomb-sniffing dog found the bags and the parking lot to be safe, but cops found the types of tools a burglar might use in the bags, Kaminski said, noting that HCCC is closed this week.

Students were taken to Schools 17 and 6, returning at about 1:30 p.m. after lunch.

AMY SARA CLARK