Over 45 schools in Delhi receive bomb threat emails; panic among students

More than 45 schools in Delhi have received bomb threat emails today, triggering panic among students and their parents, news agency PTI reported. 

 

It was earlier reported that two schools received bomb threat emails on Friday morning. Richmond Global School in the Paschim Vihar area of Delhi and Abhinav Public School in Rohini Sector 3. Delhi Police and fire department officials reached the spot, a Delhi Fire Service official said. 

 

Speaking to PTI, an official said, "Teams of multiple agencies are present and thorough checking is ongoing. However, nothing suspicious has been found yet."

 

Earlier on Wednesday, several schools in the national capital received bomb threats, triggering panic and prompting immediate evacuations, PTI reported. After extensive searches were carried out, the authorities declared the threats as hoaxes.   Meanwhile, a 12-year-old student was detained on July 16 for sending a hoax bomb threat to St Thomas School in Dwarka, authorities said. The threat was sent on Tuesday, July 15.  The school received another bomb threat in less than 24 hours.

 

 

 

 

The student was counselled and handed over to his family members, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Ankit Singh said.

 

So far, bomb threats have been received at Maxfort Junior School and Guru Nanak School in Pitampura; six schools in Dwarka St Thomas School, GD Goenka School, DIS Edge School, Modern International School, Dwarka International School and La Petite Montessori; Richmond School and Doon Public School in Paschim Vihar; six schools in Rohini MRG School in Sector 3, Delhi Public School, Sovereign Public School and Heritage Public School in Sector 24, Delhi International Public School in Sector 9, Abhinav Public School in Sector 3 and The Heritage School; Summerfield International School in South Delhi.

 

Others include Bharti Public School in Swasthya Vihar, Hamdard Public School in Sangam Vihar, St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School in Raj Niwas Marg, North Delhi Public School in Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi Public School in Vikas Puri, Mira Nursery School in Janakpuri, Prudence School, The Indian School in Sadiq Nagar, Delhi Public School on Mathura Road, Mater Dei School in Tilak Lane.

 

Delhi Jain Public School in Palam, Junior Delhi School, Delhi Public School in R K Puram, East of Kailash and Vasant Vihar, The British School in Chanakyapuri, Delhi City School in Bawana, Faith Academy in Prasad Nagar, Amity International School in Saket, Cambridge Foundation School in Rajouri Garden, Big Feather International School, Kulachi Hansraj Model School in Ashok Vihar also received bomb threats. 

The bomb threat emails were received between 5:26 and 8:12 am. The schools were thoroughly checked and nothing suspicious was discovered. 

 

Wednesday was the third consecutive day when schools in Delhi received bomb threats. All of these threats turned out to be hoaxes. St Stephen's College of the University of Delhi also received a bomb threat email, which claimed that a bomb has been planted in the library of the college.   Former Delhi Chief Minister Atishi slammed the Bhartiya Janata Party-led government in the national capital. In a post on X, she said, "BJP controls all 4-engines of governance in Delhi, and is yet not able to provide any safety or security to our children! Shocking!"