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Four teenagers face a a number of charges in connection with a bomb threats last week in the national capital area.

The Sûreté du Québec said the four individuals, aged 16 and 17 and from the Wakefield, Chelsea and Ange-Gardien areas, were charged with mischief after schools in the Outaouais and Ottawa were targeted by email threats on Oct. 28 and 29.

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However, the Sûreté du Québec said Wednesday that it had not established any link between last week’s threats and new ones on Tuesday leading to the closure of more than 40 schools across Quebec, including 11 administered by the West Quebec School Board, along with a career centre and an adult education centre.

Meanwhile, the West Quebec School Board announced Wednesday that all of its schools would close as support staff workers took to the picket lines to as part of provincewide protests over stalled contract negotiations with the provincial government.