New Delhi: After Delhi, several schools in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad received threat e-mails on Monday. The police immediately swung into swift search action. However, nothing suspicious was found on the premises of the schools.
The threat e-mails were reportedly sent from a Russian domain ‘mail.ru’, the same source of the bomb threat mails received by over 100+ schools in Delhi-NCR last week, according to News18.
Notably, around 130 schools in Delhi-NCR received bomb threat e-mails last week. According to investigation agencies, the mail sent to schools in Delhi-NCR originated from a server in Russia.
The Delhi Police’s anti-terror unit special cell had traced the domain of emails to Russia and it was suspected to have been formed with the help of the dark web – an encrypted online content that allows individuals to hide their identity and location from others.
According to a police officer, the email ID from which the threat was sent is ‘sawariim@mail.ru’. Sawarim is an Arabic word extensively used by the terror outfit Islamic State (IS) in their propaganda videos over the past several years, the official said.
“Kill them wherever you meet and drive them out of the places from which they drove you. There are many explosive devices in the school…,” read the email sent to the schools in Delhi.
The officer said the email also contained “aayate (verses) of the holy Quran”, the report added.
