At least 80 private schools across Bengaluru and Delhi received bomb threat emails on Friday morning, triggering panic, massive police deployment and students being sent home as per protocols.

Bomb Disposal Squad inspections were held across both the cities in an effort to trace the source but in vain. All threats were reported as hoaxes. 

In Bengaluru, bomb threats were received by schools early Friday morning in schools in areas around Rajarajeshwarinagar, Kengeri and other South Bengaluru areas.

Bomb disposal squad was pressed into service and several schools immediately asked students to vacate the campus in view of students’ safety and security.

The threats were received via e-mails with a subject line “Bombs inside the school” and was sent to various schools. The sender claimed to have planted multiple explosive devices containing trinitrotoluene (TNT) in classrooms.

The message read the explosives are skillfully hidden, in black plastic bags. I will erase every last one of you from this world. Not a single soul will survive. I will gladly laugh when I watch the news, only to see the parents show up at the school and to be greeted by the cold, dismembered bodies of their children.

It further said, “You all deserve to suffer. I truly hate my life, I will commit suicide after the news kick in. I will slit my throat and slit my wrists. I was never truly helped, psychiatrists, psychologists, no one has ever cared and no one will ever care. You only care about medicating the helpless and clueless humans.. . Please give a copy of the message to the press/media.”

It maybe recollected that Bengaluru schools have been receiving bomb threats for some months now.

Similarly, schools in the National Capital including St Xaviers in Civil Lines, Richmond Global School in Paschim Vihar, Abhinav Public School in Rohini and The Sovereign School in Rohini, received bomb threats. This is the fourth such consecutive day threats were issued for schools across the national capital.

However, responding to this, a senior police officer in Delhi told reporters, “Tracking someone on the dark web is like chasing a shadow in a room full of mirrors. The moment you think you have found a lead, it vanishes behind another layer of anonymity,”

Inputs from PTI

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