India: School in Delhi receives bomb threat on e-mail, evacuated; turns out hoax

A school in India's national capital Delhi was evacuated on Wednesday (April 12) for a security check after the school administration received a bomb threat in its email and promptly alerted the police and authorities.

The bomb disposal squad reached ‘The Indian School’ which is located in South Delhi’s Sadiq Nagar and checked the premises thoroughly after the evacuation, only to conclude that the threat“appears to be a hoax”.

DCP Chandan Chaudhary said that BDS, BDT, and SWAT teams conducted thorough checking of the school premises after evacuating it.“At 10:50 am, the school received a bomb threat via e-mail. We evacuated all the students. We deployed BDT and BDS teams. We informed the Special Cell and Special Branch. We have done a visual search with the SWAT team,” she said.

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According tothe police, after the school authorities received the email,the school administration immediately called the police and contacted the parents to pick up their children.

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In a message to the parents, the administration stated, “On account of some unexpected security reasons, we are having to close school early. Kindly arrange to pick up your ward as per details...Front Gate…self pickup…Back gate van users. School will resume as usual tomorrow.”

The police said that the school was evacuated as a precautionary measure. The video from outside the gate of the school showed a huge crowd of parents eagerly waiting for the children.

"We received a message from the school asking us to bring our children home," said one of the parents.

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In November 2022, a similar email was received by the school. The police said that the students were then evacuated from the school premises and the threat was later found to be a hoax.

“This is not the first time the school admin received a bomb threat. Last year in November, the admin received a similar email from an unknown sender. That was a hoax email. Our teams are at the spot with Bomb Disposal Sqaud and dog squad,” said DCP (South) Chandan Chowdhary, speaking on the bomb threat.

(With inputs from agencies)

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