Amritsar colleges receive bomb threat emails

Days after back-to-back blasts triggered security concerns among citizens in Amritsar and Jalandhar, several colleges in Amritsar and Baba Bakala on Thursday received a bomb threat via email.

It said bomb explosions will occur between May 7 to May 9 across several cities of Punjab, including Amritsar, Adampur, Fatehgarh Sahib and more.

An email was received at the admission office of a local private college in Manawala. "We immediately reported it to police. Bomb squads and police team were rushed to the college. We were later told that it was a hoax and there was no need to panic," said a spokesperson of college management.

The email purportedly sent by Khalistan National Army also threatened CM Bhagwant Mann and Union Minister Ravneet Bittu. It also mentioned the Khasa Cantonment explosion, for which Khalistan Liberation Army had claimed responsibility.

Previously, several such hoax emails have been received by prominent schools of the city.

A spokesperson of the Amritsar police said the threat email was a hoax and they had alerted the security personnel across city.