Two private schools in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city received the bomb threats vis e-mail on Tuesday. Both the school buildings were evacuated and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads were sent there for inspection.
Bomb disposal squads were sent to the two institutions. However, no explosive has been found so far.
Quoting Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajesh Dandotia, PTI reported that the e-mails which were sent to the New Digamber Public School, located on Khandwa Road, and the Indore Public School, in Rau area, threatened to blow the schools up using RDX.
"The email said that RDX has been planted in both the schools and this will cause explosions in the educational institutions. Some things are written in Tamil language also in the email", he told PTI.
Delhi School Bomb Threats
Back in December, 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.
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.
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.
In May 2024, 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.
