Seven Bengaluru Schools Get Bomb Threat Through Mail, Police Say Hoax

Emails were sent from different IDs.

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Chennai: Children were evacuated and bomb disposal squads placed into service after seven schools in Bengaluru received a bomb threat email at 11 AM on Saturday, the city police said.  

However, police said it prima facie appeared to be a hoax call and no explosive materials were found. 

The threat mail received by the schools said a "very powerful bomb" had been planted in the school, an ANI report said.

The mail also cautioned the schools against taking it as a joke, and asked them to immediately call the police without any delay, failing which hundreds of lives could suffer, the ANI report said. 

"Now, everything is in your hand," the concluding line in the mail read. However, the emails were sent from different IDs.

The seven schools that received the emails are Delhi Public School, Bangalore East; Gopalan International; New Academy School; St Vincent Paul School; Indian Public School; and Ebenezer International School in Bengaluru Rural limits. 

The officers suspect that the origin of the message is from the United States, according to a Hindustan Times report. Police have registered a case and are probing the origin of the email.  

A Subramanyeswara Rao, Additional Commissioner of Police, East Zone, Bengaluru, said the situation was control.

"The bomb threat emails are also coinciding with the SSLC exams being held in schools. Even earlier, we've had such hoax calls during exams. Parents and students don't need to panic, the police have the situation under control. We've checked all schools and found nothing," ANI quoted Subramanyeswara Rao as saying.

"It prima facie appears to be a hoax call but we are not taking anything lightly. Two teams are working to find the source of the email IDs," he further said.