Following an email containing a bomb threat, around 100 schools in Delhi and the National Capital Region sent their students home early. Although they are conducting extensive search operations on the scene, police officers have not yet discovered anything suspicious.
These comprise three schools in the east, ten in South Delhi, and at least five in the southwest. The threats arrived on the schools’ official email accounts at four in the morning. Vinai Kumar Saxena, the lieutenant governor of Delhi, informed reporters that the Delhi Police had located the source of the threat emails and that an investigation was under progress.
Additionally, the Union Home Ministry has stated that there is no reason to be alarmed because it seems like the threats are a hoax. You don’t need to freak out. It seems to be a phony call. Security services and the Delhi Police are following policy and taking the appropriate actions.
Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena of the nation’s capital announced that the police had located the source of the phony bomb threat emails.
The first institutions to be informed of the threat this morning was Sanskriti School in Chanakyapuri, Mother Mary School in Mayur Vihar, east Delhi, and Delhi Public School in Dwarka. Since then, identical letters alleging the presence of explosives on campus have been received by about 100 additional schools.
As the search operations began, Mother Mary, one of the schools, had to halt an exam in progress. The school declared a state of emergency and instructed all individuals to evacuate the premises immediately.
The school premises were evacuated following notification to the local police. Footage from the schools depicted parents hurrying to collect their children.
Bomb detection teams, bomb disposal squads, and Delhi Fire Service officials were swiftly dispatched to the schools. As a precautionary measure, some schools, even those not directly threatened, dismissed students early.
Delhi’s Education Minister, Atishi, confirmed these events, stating that no suspicious items had been discovered in any of the schools thus far.
