Police in Benbrook confirmed Saturday afternoon that the Wal-Mart there had been evacuated.
Police would not give further details but Facebook posts say the evacuation was because of a bomb threat.Wal-Mart stores across the country recently have had similar threats.The Associated Press reported earlier this week that authorities said a northern New Jersey Wal-Mart store that received a bomb Monday was evacuated again Thursday.Police officials told The Record of Woodland Park that the Wal-Mart at Harmon Meadow Cove shopping plaza in Secaucus, N.J., was evacuated Thursday afternoon.Police have not yet said what prompted Thursday's evacuation.The same Wal-Mart was evacuated three days earlier after a bomb threat was phoned in. About 700 people were evacuated from the store Monday afternoon. A search found no explosives or other incendiary devices.Authorities were investigating whether the New Jersey incidents were related to at least a dozen similar threats that have been received at Wal-Marts in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri in recent days. No explosives were found in those incidents.Staff writer Susan McFarland contributed to this report, which contains material from the Associated Press.
