New Delhi: For the second time in the same week, at least six Delhi schools received bomb threats on Friday morning triggering multi-agency searches in their premises.
This comes after a similar incident took place on December 9, when at least 44 schools received bomb threat emails. Later, police had found these to be hoaxes.
A Delhi Fire Services official said that call regarding the threat emails were received from Bhatnagar International School, Paschim Vihar (4.21 am), Cambridge School, Shri Niwas Puri (6.23 am), DPS Amar Colony, East of Kailash (6:35 am), South Delhi Public School, Defence Colony (7.57 am), Delhi Police Public School, Safdarjung (8.02 am), Venkateshwar Global School, Rohini (8.30 am), reported the Hindustan Times.
Authorities of these schools alerted parents and advised them to keep their children at home or pick them up if they had already arrived at school.
The emails were sent at 12.54 am, mentioning “parent-teachers’ meeting” and “sports day” activities. This was followed by a warning that the schools would face bomb blasts on Friday and Saturday, PTI reported citing sources.
In October, an explosion outside a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) school in Rohini’s Prashant Vihar damaged the school wall and nearby shops and vehicles.
The very next day other schools received an email threatening a bomb blast at all CRPF schools. After an investigation, it was found to be a hoax.
