New Delhi, October 23: Three schools in Delhi received bomb-threat emails on Friday morning, prompting authorities to launch search operations across the campuses, officials said. No suspicious object was found during the searches, they added.
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Careers360 reported that the schools were Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in Lodi Estate, Venkateshwar Global School in Rohini and Salwan Public School in Mayur Vihar. The Delhi Fire Service said teams rushed to the schools after receiving information about the threats, and the premises were evacuated as a precautionary measure, with bomb disposal squads, dog squads, fire personnel and police conducting the searches.
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In a separate report, IANS said Delhi Police named Venkateshwar Public School in Rohini and Salwan Public School in Mayur Vihar among the institutions that received threats, and that the fire department received calls regarding the two schools at around 9.37 a.m. and 9.57 a.m. respectively. Police said the threat received by Salwan Public School mentioned a possible bomb attack on October 30, according to IANS.
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No suspicious objects or incriminating material were found during the initial searches, IANS reported, and the investigation is under way to establish the origin and credibility of the threats.
Threat emails received Friday morning by schools in Lodi Estate, Rohini and Mayur Vihar; campuses evacuated and searched by police, bomb-disposal and dog squads; nothing suspicious found so far; police are tracing the source of the emails. The October 30 date was mentioned in the Salwan Public School threat, according to police via IANS.
The incident follows a similar wave on October 12, when several schools in neighbouring Noida received bomb threats via email and were searched by bomb disposal squads, dog squads and anti-sabotage teams, with nothing suspicious recovered, IANS reported. Repeated bomb threats targeting schools in Delhi and the wider National Capital Region have raised concerns among law-enforcement agencies, school administrations, students and parents.