Page 8 - Bomb Threat Calls

Several hospitals in Jaipur receive email bomb threats, says police

Several Hospitals in Jaipur received email bomb threats on Sunday, police said. Bomb disposal squad teams have been dispatched to the hospitals. The emails claimed that bombs had been planted under hospital beds and in bathrooms, police said. "So far, four hospitals have said that they received such (bomb threat) emails. More hospitals are likely to confirm as and when they check emails," Jaipur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph told PTI. Bomb disposal squads were rushed to the hospitals after receiving the information, he said. The email sent to the hospitals read, "I placed the bomb in the hospital building. The bombs are hidden under hospital beds and inside bathrooms. Every person inside the hospital will be killed or will lose limbs. None of you will escape." "You will end up in a pool of blood. You all deserve nothing but death. The terrorists 'Ching and Cultist' are behind this MASSACRE," it said. On Saturday, two malls in the National Capital Region had received simi

DLF mall in Noida, Ambience Mall receive bomb threats, search underway

The Ambience Mall management received a threatening email from an individual who alleged that bombs had been planted with the intention to 'kill everyone in the building'

London-bound Air India flight receives bomb threat, no explosives found

A London-bound Air India flight received a bomb threat here on Tuesday but no explosives were found, an official said. A man suspected of making the threatening call has been apprehended by authorities, a Cochin International Airport spokesperson said . Security personnel conducted extensive checks on the aircraft and found no danger, allowing the flight to proceed as planned, he said in a statement here. According to him, a bomb threat call was received by the Air India call center in Mumbai early on Tuesday for flight AI 149, scheduled to fly from Cochin to London Gatwick. The alert was promptly communicated to Air India here and the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) at 01:22 hours. Following established protocols, a Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) was immediately convened at CIAL. The threat was assessed and declared specific. Following this, thorough security checks were conducted by the Airport Security Group (ASG-CISF), airline security personnel, and inl

Ahmedabad airport gets hoax bomb threat; 2nd such incident since May 12

The Ahmedabad airport on Monday received a bomb threat via an email which turned out to be a hoax after security personnel conducted a thorough search of the premises and did not find anything suspicious, an official said. Nothing suspicious was found after the premises of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport was searched for more than two hours by local police and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, inspector of airport police station SG Khambhala said. The search operation involving teams from local police, the CISF and a bomb disposal squad (BDS) went on for two-and-a-half hours, he said. The incident comes more than a month after a similar threat mail was received by Ahmedabad airport authorities on May 12, but nothing suspicious was found then also. On June 18, the Vadodara airport in Gujarat was among several other airports in the country which received a bomb threat via an email which later turned out to be a hoax.

Threat emails: Delhi Police to have bomb disposal squads in each district

After bomb threats over email to schools, hospitals and other establishments in the national capital, the Delhi Police has planned to expand its bomb detection, disposal and dog squads in each of its district for swift action, official sources said. There are five bomb disposal squads, 18 bomb detection teams and one dog squad with 70 canines for Delhi's 15 police districts. All three units are under the Crime Branch. In the past two months, there have been at least seven instances of hospitals, schools, colleges, museums, railway establishments, prisons and government offices getting bomb threats via email that were sent using virtual private networks (VPN) or proxy servers. The threats were later found to be hoaxes and are being investigated by the Special Cell. The sources said whenever such a threat is received, the entire machinery of the administration is tasked with sweeping the premises. After the local police, the bomb detection, disposal and dog squads are first responde

IndiGo flight from Chennai to Mumbai receives bomb threat; lands safely

IndiGo, in its statement, said that all the passengers were safely disembarked from the aeroplane

Patna, Jaipur airports receive hoax bomb threats; security beefed up

In the first incident, Patna airport received a bomb threat by email, following which a thorough search of the facility was conducted and security beefed up

Delhi bound IndiGo flight gets bomb threat, passengers safely disembarked

An IndiGo flight from Varanasi to the national capital received a bomb threat on Saturday and all passengers safely disembarked from the aircraft after landing at the Delhi airport. In a statement, the airline said flight 6E 2232, operating from Varanasi to Delhi, had received a bomb threat. "Upon landing in Delhi, the aircraft was taken to an isolation bay as per security agency guidelines and the crew followed all standard operating procedures," it said. According to the airline, all passengers have safely disembarked and the aircraft is currently undergoing inspection.

IndiGo flight lands in 'full emergency' after bomb threat; all exit safely

An IndiGo flight operating from Chennai to Mumbai with 172 persons on board landed in full emergency conditions here on Saturday after it received a bomb threat, sources have said. The flight landed at around 8.45 am and the passengers' deplaning has been completed using the step ladder, a source said. This is the second such incident involving an IndiGo flight in the past week. On May 28, an IndiGo Varanasi flight from Delhi had received an alleged bomb threat. Full emergency was declared for IndiGo flight 6E5314, operating on Chennai-Mumbai route on Saturday after the pilot informed the Mumbai ATC of an alleged bomb threat to the aircraft, the source said. Confirming the alleged bomb threat to its Chennai-Mumbai flight, IndiGo said in a statement, Upon landing in Mumbai, the crew followed protocol and the aircraft was taken to an isolation bay as per security agency guidelines. All passengers have safely disembarked the aircraft, which is currently undergoing inspection, it ...

Srinagar-bound Vistara aircraft receives bomb threat, lands safely

Flight no-UK-611, which departed from Delhi, landed safely at Srinagar Airport at approximately 12:10 AM

Bomb threat on Varanasi-bound Indigo flight at Delhi airport turns out hoax

The officials said the threat was found written on a piece of paper in a lavatory by the pilot when the Indigo 6E2211 flight was preparing to leave

School bomb threat linked to students' online chat group, says UP police

Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Zone) Tej Swaroop Singh said group of children aged between 10-11 years wrongly forwarded a message of a bomb attack to a private school's email ID in Lucknow

Over dozen DU colleges including Lady Sri Ram, Hansraj receive bomb threat

Over a dozen colleges including Delhi University's prestigious Lady Sri Ram College, Hansraj College and Ramjas College received bomb threats on Thursday but nothing suspicious was found after thorough searches, officials said, a day after a similar e-mail sent alarm bells ringing in the North Block. A Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official said they first received a call at 4.38 pm about the bomb threat at the LSR College and two fire tenders were pressed into service. Later, other colleges also made the call to authorities. The local police, a bomb disposal squad, a bomb detection team arrived at the LSR College along with a dog squad and conducted searches but nothing suspicious was found, the official said. LSR Principal Suman Sharma told PTI the entire campus has been sanitised. "We received the bomb threat e-mail in the afternoon today. Immediately, the police were informed and they sent a bomb (disposal) squad. The search operation went on for two-three hours and the entire campu

Bengaluru on high alert again as 3 hotels receive bomb threat emails

Three hotels including five-star Oterra received bomb threat via emails, nearly seven weeks after a private school in the Bengaluru Urban district received an email claiming explosives had been plante

Home Ministry receives bomb threat mail, nothing found during search

This incident adds to the recent rise in hoax bomb threats affecting numerous institutions across the national capital, including schools, airports, hospitals, and prisons

After Delhi and Jaipur, bomb threats made to 10 schools in UP's Kanpur

Schools in Kanpur were threatened a day after seven Delhi hospitals received bomb threats by email on Tuesday

Several Delhi hospitals get bomb threat emails, search operation underway

Several bomb hoaxes have been reported in recent weeks, coinciding with heightened security measures due to the ongoing elections

Some schools in Jaipur evacuated after getting bomb threats on email

At least four schools in Jaipur have received bomb threats via email. Police teams, along with bomb squads and sniffer dogs, have been deployed to conduct searches

Nothing suspicious found at IGI, hospitals after bomb threats: Police

IGI Airport received a bomb threat through email from an unidentified account on Sunday afternoon, Delhi Police said

After Delhi, Ahmedabad schools get bomb threats from same Russian domain

The threatening emails were reportedly sent from the Russian domain "mail.ru," the same one that was used to send the bomb threats to the Delhi schools