Shopping centre is evacuated during lockdown after a bomb threat was made 

A shopping centre on the NSW Central Coast has been evacuated due to a bomb threat. 

Police were called to Bateau Bay Square on Bay Village Road in Bateau Bay after a threat was made around 1.15pm on Thursday.

Reports online claim the threat was made on a post box outside a St George Bank at the shopping mall, but police are still investigating the incident. 

Residents in Bateau Bay, around 100km north of Sydney, are currently under stay-at-home orders under Covid lockdown restrictions in place across NSW. 

It remains unclear how many people were in the centre at the time of the evacuation. 

More to come. 

Bateau Bay Square (pictured), in the NSW Central Coast, has been evacuated due to a bomb threat

Source: Daily Mail