| At least 100 schools receive bomb threats in Delhi NCR, found nothing after checks, say Police | | |  Agencies
NEW DELHI, May 1: In a scare of unprecedented scale, at least 100 schools in the Delhi NCR area received an identical bomb threat by email early Wednesday, triggering mass evacuations and massive searches as panicked parents rushed to pick up their children.
The threat was declared a hoax as "nothing objectionable" was found during searches, police said Police sources said that the email schools received had the same source, suspected to be sent from Russia aimed at creating panic.
They added that it is also possible that culprits may have masked their identity using the dark net.
A senior officer said that since the incident is related to national security, Delhi Police is likely to register an FIR under stringent sections of the IPC.
According to Delhi Fire Service (DFS), at least 97 calls from different schools have been received till 12 noon on Wednesday. They started receiving calls about the bomb threat at 6 am, an officer said.
An official said that DFS also received calls even after noon and firefighters are still on the ground.
Multiple private schools in Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Gurugram also received the bomb threat but local police dismissed them as hoax.
Visuals from many schools showed parents assembling outside schools to pick their children. The school administrations were seen making announcements on the microphone while parents rushed to collect their wards.
The bomb threat was received in 24 private schools in east Delhi, 18 schools in south Delhi, 21 schools in west Delhi and 10 schools in Shahdara, police said.
Earlier in the day, the Union home ministry said that there was no need to panic as the threat appeared to be a hoax. Delhi Police and security agencies are taking all necessary steps as per protocol, it said.
Delhi Police said it has conducted a thorough check of all schools that received the bomb threat but found nothing.
"Some schools of Delhi received emails regarding bomb threats. Delhi Police has conducted thorough checks of all such schools as per protocol," Delhi Police said in a post on X.
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