Charlottesville, March 13 -- A bomb threat was reported at the Shannon Library at the University of Virginia (UVA) in the US on Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate the building and nearby facilities, the University's Police Division said on Friday.

In a series of posts on X, the police division stated that officers were on the scene investigating the threat and evacuating both Shannon Library and Clemons Library at the university.

According to the alerts posted by the UVA's police division, the first update at around 10:59 am (local time) said that a bomb threat had been reported at Shannon Library and that the facility was being evacuated.

A subsequent alert at 11:14 am (local time) urged people to evacuate both Shannon and Clem...