A day after around 30 schools received bomb threats in Delhi, several other schools including DPS RK Puram received similar bomb threats via e-mail on Saturday morning marking the third instance in the national capital this week.
"We received a call about a bomb threat at DPS RK Puram at 6:09 am," a Delhi Fire Services official told PTI while asserting that search was underway.
The fire department, local police, dog squads and bomb detection teams reached the school and launched a search operation, the official said.
Around 30 schools in Delhi received bomb threats over email early on Friday, triggering a multi-agency search of the premises. Nothing suspicious was found in any of the schools after the searches.
The development came within days since at least 44 schools received similar emails on December 9. Police had declared those threats as hoaxes.
In view of the current situation, the school authorities have sent messages to guardians to not send their wards for classes.
Following the scare, Delhi schools suspended their classes and urgently sent students back home. Officials from the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) added that bomb detection teams, fire officials, local police and dog squads responded immediately and conducted searches at the schools.
Back in May, bomb threats to over 200 schools across Delhi and NCR sent authorities into alert mode and parents into panic, prompting the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to step in and issue a statement that the threats were most likely hoax.
Teams of police, bomb squad, fire service and other agencies rushed to conduct checks, parents left home or offices to pick up their children as the count of schools that received threats grew rapidly. Some schools that did not receive threats also asked parents to pick their ward as a precautionary measure.
The MHA, Delhi Police later said nothing was found after thorough checking. Delhi Police Crime Branch Special CP Ravinder Yadav said apart from schools, these emails were received by some hospitals also.
