Officials said the husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris was evacuated Tuesday after a bomb threat was made at the Washington high school where he was celebrating African American history.

During Black History Month commemorations at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, Douglas Emhoff, whose official title is second gentleman, was escorted away by his security detail. The students were also asked to leave.

“It was a bomb threat,” Enrique Gutierrez, a spokeswoman for the Washington public schools, told reporters. “We had a threat to the facility today, so we took the precautionary measure of evacuating everyone, as you can see. I believe that everyone is safe. The structure is visible.”

There were no immediate details released about the nature of the bomb threat.

Emhoff spokeswoman Katie Peters tweeted that “Secret Service was made aware of a security threat at a school where the @SecondGentleman was meeting with students and faculty.”

“Mr Emhoff is safe and the school has been evacuated. We are grateful to Secret Service and DC Police for their work,” Peters said.

Harris is the first African-American and Asian-American woman to be elected Vice President of the United States. Emhoff, a lawyer and the first-ever husband of a US vice president, travels extensively to promote the White House agenda, either alone or with Harris.

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