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Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have caused uproar across the Muslim world, said Wednesday its offices were evacuated after a bomb threat.
The paper's offices in the central town of Aarhus were evacuated after the threat was called in just after 7:00 pm (1800 GMT), it reported on its website.
"A man stated in broken English that a bomb would explode at Jyllands-Posten in Aarhus within an hour," the paper reported.
The paper's offices in downtown Copenhagen, which it shares with the Ritzau news agency, were also evacuated, Ritzau reported.
The bomb threat was the second in just over 24 hours and came as Muslim anger over 12 cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten last September depicting the Prophet Mohammed continued to swell.
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