Dozens of Delhi schools on alert after receiving bomb threats

DELHI: Dozens of schools in Delhi received bomb threats on Monday (December 9), leading to authorities stepping up security and conducting initial searches on school premises, a police official said.

Two schools received the threats via email on Sunday (December 8) night, which said multiple bombs were planted inside buildings and would be detonated if the sender was not paid $30,000, according to ANI news agency.

Many other schools received the emails on Monday morning, Additional Commissioner of Police Sanjay Tyagi said, prompting school authorities to call parents to take the students home for the day. Parents were seen picking their children up from the gates of some schools as police checked school premises for suspicious items.

In May, more than 50 schools in Delhi and the adjoining suburb of Noida received similar bomb threat emails that turned out to be hoaxes.

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