Update 1.30pm: Students have now returned to their classrooms.
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Earlier:
For the second time this week, two Illawarra high schools and Wollongong TAFE have been evacuated due to reports of a bomb threat.
About midday on Friday, students from Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts (WHSPA), Keira High School and the nearby TAFE campus at Wollongong were evacuated.
According to police, students at all campuses voluntarily left their buildings.
A police operation was undertaken, and nothing was located.
Inquiries are continuing.
This follows an incident on Monday, during which students from the two Illawarra high schools and Wollongong TAFE eventually returned to their classrooms after a bomb threat saw them evacuated from site buildings.
Police searched the grounds with the help of the dog squad and declared the sites safe just after noon on Monday.
A police spokeswoman said WHSPA received the bomb threat via email on Monday morning, with students evacuated from Keira High and the TAFE campus as a precaution.
Staff at Officeworks were also evacuated from their building.
More details to come.