Gergely Gulyás, Head of the Prime Minister's Office, said the government "is capable of ensuring security at schools", adding that an investigation had started concerning multiple bomb threats at schools earlier in the day.
Gulyás said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had been in contact with the interior minister and the minister in charge of the secret services since the first threatening emails arrived in the early hours of the morning. The emails seem to have come from the same sender, and contain the same text, he said.
According to Gulyás, lessons were not suspended centrally, although principals had the right to decide otherwise.
The police are in the process of ascertaining if the threats have any foundation, he said. Hungary's secret services have contacted their Slovak counterparts in view of Slovak schools having received similar threats last year, he said.
Government spokeswoman Eszter Vitályos said bomb threats have been sent to 121 institutions so far.