Bomb Threat To Avoid School? Delhi Teen's Email Hoax Sparks Evacuation

The Delhi Police revealed on Saturday that a 14-year-old student has been identified as the suspect behind a bomb threat sent to a private school in Greater Kailash, according to ANI. The student admitted to sending the threat email because he did not want to attend school. To make the hoax seem more credible, he mentioned two additional schools in the email.

Bomb threat at Summer Fields School, Kailash Colony, GK-1, Delhi | Delhi Police say, "A 14-year-old student has been identified and is being questioned. The student didn't want to go to the school and had, therefore, sent the bomb threat mail. The student had mentioned two more…

— ANI (@ANI) August 3, 2024

On Friday, Summer Fields School in Kailash Colony, Greater Kailash, received an email threatening to blow up the school. The building was evacuated as a precautionary measure. The email, received around midnight, claimed a bomb was planted on the school's premises on Thursday. A thorough search by the bomb detection team, including a dog squad, found nothing suspicious.

Shalini Agarwal, Principal of Summer Fields School, said, 'We received an email late at night, which was checked early morning. Following the SOP, we evacuated the students within 10 minutes of receiving the email. We informed the police and district administration, who responded immediately and supported us magnificently. There was no panic among the parents.'

#WATCH | Principal of Summer Fields School, Shalini Agarwal says, "We received an email late at night which was checked early morning today. As per the SOP, we evacuated the students within 10 minutes of receiving the email. We informed the police and district administration, and… https://t.co/GWTq6ejMYj pic.twitter.com/D6MuZmU6lr

— ANI (@ANI) August 2, 2024

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The police have registered a case and initiated a probe into the incident.

This follows a series of bomb threats earlier in May, where over 130 schools across Delhi-NCR received similar threats, causing widespread panic among students and administration. Investigations suggested the emails originated from a server in Russia. Recently, schools, hospitals, and airports have been frequent targets of bomb threats. Previously, over 60 schools, the Indira Gandhi International Airport, and several government hospitals in Delhi received bomb threats through emails, with the police later confirming that nothing suspicious was found.

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