Six city schools get bomb threats

As many as six schools in the national capital received bomb threats through e-mail on Thursday through, prompting the police and other emergency agencies to launch a search operation, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said.

Calls regarding the bomb threat were received between 6:35 am and 7:48 am in six schools - Andhra School in Prasad Nagar, BGS International School, Rao Man Singh School, Convent School, Max Fort School and Indraprastha International School, Dwarka - in the Capital, officials said.

Police teams, along with fire personnel and bomb disposal squads, rushed to the premises immediately.

This is the third such incident in four days when schools have received bomb threats. On Monday, 32 schools across Delhi received similar threats, which later turned out to be hoaxes.

On Wednesday, around 50 schools in the national capital received bomb threats again through e-mail, which were later declared ‘hoax’. The educational institutions across the national capital have been plagued by such menaces as nearly 80 threats have been received so far in this month.

Last month, the police detained a 12-year-old boy for sending threats to St Stephen’s College and St Thomas School, but was later released after counseling. This remains the only case solved by the police related to bomb threats by far this year.