Delhi's Tihar Jail Receives Bomb Threats Hours After 4 Hospitals Get Warning Emails

The Prison officials said that the administration informed the Delhi Police about the warning call. As per a report in ANI, a mail was also recieved by the jail administration.

Hours after four hospitals in the national capital received bomb threats, Tihar Jail in New Delhi recieved a bomb threat call on Monday.

 

The Prison officials said that the administration informed the Delhi Police about the warning call. As per a report in ANI, a mail was also recieved by the jail administration.

 

The warning call comes hours after four hospitals in the national capital -- Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital, GTB Hospital, Dada Dev Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital -- received a bomb threat via email.

 

According to a PTI report, the emails were sent from 'beeble.com', a Europe-based mailing service company, with the same content sent to hospitals on Sunday. The officer said on Tuesday the email had come from the ID courtisgod123@beeble.com.

 

The content of the letter read, "I have placed explosive devices inside your building. They will explode in the following hour. This isn't a threat, you have a few hours to disarm the bomb or else the blood of innocent people inside the building will be on your hands."

 

Police said the e-mail was sent to one hospital with copies marked to others and Tihar Jail. 

 

According to a Delhi Fire Service officials, the spate of calls began at 10.45 am. The first hospital to call was Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital in north Delhi's Ashok Vihar at 9.45 am. The second call came at 10.55 am from Dada Dev Hospital in Dabri in southwest Delhi, the third at 11.01 am from Hedgewar Hospital in east Delhi's Farsh Bazar and the fourth at 11.12 am from GTB Hospital in Shahdara, also in east Delhi.

 

The bomb disposal squad, bomb detection team, fire department and local police rushed to the spot to conduct searches. Officials said that they have conducted checks twice, but nothing suspicious has been found so far.

 

This is the fourth time in the last one month that various places, including schools, have received such threats. Before Sunday, when the airport and the 20 hospitals got bomb threats, Delhi's Chacha Nehru Hospital received a bomb threat on April 30. On May 1, about 150 schools had got email threats generated from a Russia based mailing service company.