Bomb threat panic over 40 Delhi schools, no suspicious material found
More than 40 schools in the capital were thrown into chaos and panic on Monday morning after they received bomb threats via email, police officials said.
More than 40 schools in the capital were thrown into chaos and panic on Monday morning after they received bomb threats via email, police officials said.
A private school, located just a kilometre away from the blast site in Prashant Vihar area of North West Delhi’s Rohini on Friday received a bomb related threat via email, Delhi Fire Services officials said.
A police spokesperson said that senior police officers, along with bomb disposal teams and dog squads, were dispatched from the divisional headquarters to Phalodi, a district headquarters, located around 140 km from Jodhpur.
A flight to Kishangarh from Lucknow at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport here was delayed for over two hours on Saturday due to a bomb threat.
The flight, carrying 174 passengers, including three infants, and seven crew members, landed here at IGI airport at 2 pm as a precautionary measure.
A Mumbai-bound IndiGo flight from Chennai which received a bomb threat landed safely at the Mumbai airport on Tuesday night, officials said.
As per cops, the threat mail was received on Monday morning at the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) office, which read that there was a bomb inside Delhi to Dubai flight. However, it turned out to be a hoax.
Bomb threats were sent to around 10-15 museums, including the Railway Museum in Delhi, via emails, officials said.
Following this, a thorough inspection was conducted, with all the standard security protocols and procedures in place, but nothing suspicious was found later, an official added.
The threat call came while the flight was midair. Authorities at the Srinagar airport took all precautionary measures.
