More than 25 schools in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad and Vadodara districts received bomb threat emails on Monday, following which the campuses were evacuated and search operations were undertaken, officials said. According to report by ANI, which cited District Education Officer, the threat mail also mentioned “turning India into Khalistan”: Nothing suspicious has been found so far, they said.
More than 15 schools in Ahmedabad and 11 in Vadodara received bomb threat emails, the officials said.
After being alerted, the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) teams rushed to carry out searches, police officials said.
Gujarat Minister Rivaba Jadeja said that, “The government is serious about the bomb threats. All the threats received against schools and other places are taken seriously. The state government is investigating the bomb threats.”
This comes days after at least seven schools in Delhi received similar kind of bomb threat emails on February 13, which were later declared a ‘hoax’, officials said.
The threatening email carried disturbing and provocative content, claiming, “Delhi will become Khalistan and bomb blast will happen at 1.11 pm in schools.” The email also claimed that a blast would take place inside Parliament at 2.11 pm, prompting heightened security alerts and coordination among multiple agencies. The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) revealed the names of schools that received the threat email — Delhi Tamil Education Association on Pusa Road, Kendriya Vidyalaya in Gole Market, Happy Public School in Daryaganj, Rabea Public School in Ballimaran, and CL Bhalla DAV School in Jhandewalan.
Police said that two other schools — Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in Lodhi Estate and British School in Chankyapuri — also received the threat emails. According to DFS, the first call was received before 9.12 am, followed by others at 9.59 am, 11.07 am, 11.08 am, and 1.39 pm. Days earlier, a similar incident occurred on February 9 too, when more than a dozen schools received bomb threat emails, which also turned out to be a hoax.
