At least four schools in Rajasthan's Jaipur received bomb threats via email on Monday (May 13), the police said. The the police along with bomb and dog squads were rushed to the spot and students and staff were evacuated.
"Four-five schools have received bomb threat. Police have reached the schools," Jaipur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph said.
The threat was given by email and a team is trying to identify the sender, police said.
"An information was received on bomb threat and the school has been sanitised...Till now only one school (Vidya Ashram) has received bomb threats...Till now we have found nothing," Police Sub Inspector Jaipur Prakash Kumar said.
Similar bomb threat in Delhi a day ago
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 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 rushed to the 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.
Earlier bomb threats
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.
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 were traced to Pakistan.
