100 Delhi schools receive bomb threat emails

As many as 100 schools across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) received bomb threats by email early on Tuesday, prompting authorities to ask parents to pick up their children and central agencies to launch a probe. Officials said a similar threat was received by several airports and hospitals in the last two days.

Talking to reporters, Delhi Lt Governor Binai Kumar Saxena said that the police have found the source of the email and investigation into the incident is underway. "I want to assure the people of Delhi that the Delhi Police is fully prepared and we are ready to prevent any untoward incident," he said.

An official said all the schools in Delhi and NCR received the same bomb threat emails which, prima facie, appear to have originated from Russia.

“All the Central agencies have started coordinating and sharing information from Delhi Police as well as Noida police. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is also looking at all the emails,” the official said.

Senior police officers said all the schools, including Sanskriti School in Chanakyapuri, DPS in RK Puram, and Vasant Kunj in Southern district, received the email around 4 am with purported content that bombs have been placed inside these educational institutions and threatening to blow them up.