Delhi bomb scare: Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport received a bomb threat email hours after several hospitals got similar emails on Sunday. The threat emails received by the multiple hospitals and the airport were sent from the same email ID, said the sources. The IGI airport received the mail around 6 pm today prompting quick action from the security forces. Massive search operations began at the hospitals and the airport after the bomb threat, they said. Teams of Delhi Police, ITBP, BSF, CISF, bomb disposal team, and dog squad were present at IGI Airport, they added.
The bomb threats were reported from Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal-3, Burari Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Bara Hindu Rao Hospital, Janakpuri Super Speciality Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Dabri's Dada Dev Hospital and Aruna Asaf Ali Government Hospital in Civil Lines, a senior DFS official said.
"On 12/05/24, at about 3.30 PM, a bomb hoax mail was received at GTB Hospital, GTB Enclave. Hospital authorities informed the local police about that mail. Immediately, the police swung into action and called the Bomb Disposal Squad at the Hospital and got the checking done of GTB Hospital and Delhi State Cancer Institute (Situated within the premises of GTB Hospital). Nothing suspicious found," DCP Shahadra said in a statement.
According to the police sources, the airport authorities received a threat email at 6 pm. After a call regarding the threat from Burari Hospital at 3 pm, local police, bomb squad, dog squad were rushed to the spot, Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) M K Meena said.
“Teams are checking the hospital. Nothing suspicious has been found yet," he said.
In a statement, an official at the Burari Hospital said, "At around 3 pm, we received an email regarding a bomb in the hospital. After this, all the safety measures had been thoroughly checked and everything was stable. This was the first time we received such an email." Sanjay Gandhi Hospital also received a threat email around 3 pm, according to officials.
“Soon after the call, we immediately pressed two fire engines at both the locations. Our teams are still there as the search operation is going on," a DFS official said.
On May 1, over 150 schools in Delhi-NCR received an identical threat email claiming that explosives had been planted on their premises, triggering massive evacuations and searches as panic-stricken parents rushed to pick up their children.
“Nothing objectionable” was found during searches by authorities which later declared it a hoax. The Delhi Police's anti-terror unit special cell has traced the domain of emails to Russia and it is 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.
Bomb threat emails sent to Ahmedabad schools traced to Pakistan
Earlier, emails threatening blasts were sent to at least 36 Ahmedabad-based schools on the eve of the voting May 7. According to the police, the emails have been traced to Pakistan.
(With agencies/Vishal Pandey inputs)
