Several Ahmedabad schools get terror threat emails, bomb squad deployed

Mangalore Today News Network

Ahmedabad, May 6, 2024: Several schools in Ahmedabad on Monday received emails threatening to blow up these institutions, police said.

The schools that got the threat emails were -- Delhi Public School (Bopal), Anand Niketan (Bopal), Asia English School (Vastrapur), Calorex School (Ghatlodiya), Amrita Vidyalaya (Ghatlodiya), New Noble School and ONGC Kendriya Vidyalaya (Chandkheda).

Authorities of the affected schools contacted the police control room about the incident. With the schools shut due to summer vacations, no major action was taken regarding the safety of children.

Police teams reached various schools in the city with bomb squads after receiving information about the threatening emails.

The threat emails were sent from a domain outside India. A police investigation into the same was on.

Police said there was nothing to panic and an alert was issued a day ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat. Polling in 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state will be held on May 7 (Tuesday).

Last week, more than 150 schools across Delhi-NCR and one in Lucknow received bomb threat emails, prompting mass evacuations. The police said the threat emails sent to these schools were a hoax.

Preliminary investigation suggested that the IP address used to send the emails to over 150 schools across Delhi-NCR was from Russia, sources said. Delhi Police suspected that the IP address could be masked through a VPN.

Courtesy: India Today