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ET OnlineLast Updated: Dec 17, 2024, 11:15:00 AM IST

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Several Delhi schools, including Indian Public School and one in Saraswati Vihar, received bomb threats Tuesday morning, prompting evacuations and searches by police, fire brigades, and bomb squads. This follows a series of similar threats in recent weeks, including incidents on December 9th, 13th, and 14th, targeting dozens of schools. Previous threats were deemed hoaxes after investigations found nothing suspicious.

Several Delhi schools receive fresh bomb threats, day after similar alerts — Delhi Police at a school

A few schools in Delhi received bomb threats on Tuesday morning. Schools in South Delhi and North West Delhi have been threatened, said Delhi Police.

Indian Public School in South Delhi and a school in Saraswati Vihar in North West Delhi have got the threats.

Police, fire brigade and bomb squad reached the locations and the premises have been evacuated.

Delhi schools bomb threats on the rise

In a similar instance on December 14, at least six Delhi schools received a bomb threat. It was the the third instance of threat emails being sent to schools in the national capital this week. "We received a call about a bomb threat at Delhi Public School, RK Puram, at 6:09 am," a Delhi Fire Services official had said.

Five more schools, including Ryan International School in Vasant Kunj and Gyan Bharati School in Saket, had received the same email from the same sender, he further said.

A police official had said nothing suspicious was found after search and inspection in any of the schools.

The mails were sent from the "[email protected]" email id at 1:47 am.

"On Saturday where students may not be there in your buildings is when the buildings shall be brought down. Our bomb vests are blessed by the Prophet Muhammad. They shall not fail their goal. Our children are brave servants of Allah. They shall complete their task," the source said quoting the email.

On December 13, about 30 schools received bomb threats over email, triggering a multi-agency search of their premises. Prior to that, at least 44 schools received similar emails on December 9.

The police had declared those threats as hoaxes after nothing suspicious was found during searches.

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