An Auckland educational facility was evacuated this morning after an employee received a threatening email about bombs being planted inside the building.

Staff and students at Kiwi College in Albany were evacuated after an employee received the email about 6.30am.

It stated explosives were planted inside the building, and threatened “you are all going to be blown into bloody chunks”.

Kiwi College provides English language courses, university foundation and high school programmes.

Finance manager Jay Cheng told the Herald the anonymous email said the educational facility was “rigged with 22 pounds of C4 explosives”.

Cheng said a former employee was mentioned by name in the email, along with other threats.

Cheng said the college self-evacuated outside while police were contacted.

Police confirmed to the Herald they received a report of a threatening email about 10am.

“The facility and surrounding businesses self-evacuated as a precaution.

“Police attended and the address was cleared.”

Cheng said the email was shocking, but everything is now “back to normal”.

“It’s just unbelievable. We don’t know what happened. We just feel like that person is doing the wrong things, you know.

“When they said [it’s] safe, no problem, then we just [went] back to work.”