Another bomb threat in Springfield, Ohio, forced two hospitals to close Saturday morning as the small city of about 60,000 continues to endure increased national attention and threats over the influx of an estimated 20,000 Haitian residents.

The bomb threats against Kettering Health Springfield and Mercy Health-Springfield Regional Medical Center came after two elementary schools and government buildings was the target on Fridayforcing evacuation and closure.

Mercy Health was placed on lockdown just after 6 a.m. while local authorities conducted a thorough search of the facility, working with the hospital’s on-site security team, a hospital spokesperson said. News Center 7adding that the threat was not credible.

“The security protocols we have in place for these cases allow us to work quickly with local law enforcement to thoroughly investigate threats and ensure the safety of our patients and staff,” Kettering Health said in a statement.

The restrictions have since been lifted.

Bomb threat on Friday forced two Springfield elementary schools to evacuate for a second day in a row and a middle school to close before the school day begins.

Several city commissioners and a municipal employee also received bomb threats via email, with a second email threatening additional locations, including Springfield City Hall, Cliff Park High School, Perrin Woods Elementary School, Roosevelt Middle School and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Ohio License Bureau Southside.

The origin of these emails is under investigation by local police and FBI agents based in Dayton.

“We recognize that the past few days have been particularly challenging for everyone in our community,” This is what the police in Springfield say in a statement to The Guardian.

Police added “we remain fully committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of each person.”

The spotlight on Springfield intensified this week after former President Donald Trump declared during Tuesday’s presidential debate that Haitian migrants in Springfield had abducted and eaten domestic animals.

“In Springfield they eat the dogs. The people that came in, they eat the cats. They eat — they eat the pets of the people who live there,” the Republican presidential candidate claimed.

When pressed by ABC News debate moderator David Muir about denials by local officials, Trump claimed, “the people on TV say their dog got eaten by the people who went there.”

Republicans have pointed to pictures and reports of wild ducks or geese allegedly taken by migrants and to an incident last month in which an American woman was arrested for eating a cat in Canton, Ohio – more than 100 miles from Springfield – and has no connection to the Haitian community,

Springfield City Manager Bryan Heck shot down the rumors, saying there were “no credible reports of specific allegations of pets being injured, harmed or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.”

The woman who wrote the first Facebook post claiming that Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating local pets now says she is deeply remorseful and never intended to harm Haitian society.

“It just exploded into something that I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee told NBC News Friday night.

Lee had no first-hand knowledge of any such incidents involving the Caribbean immigrants when she recently posted on Facebook about a missing cat that her neighbor reportedly believed had been butchered and eaten by one of the town’s Haitian residents.

“I feel for the Haitian community,” Lee told NBC.

“If I was in the Haitians’ position, I would be terrified too, worried that someone would come after me because they think I’m hurting something that they love and that, again, that’s not what I was trying to do.”