Bomb Threat Sent to 7 Bengaluru Schools, Police Searches Underway

Around seven schools in Bengaluru were evacuated after a bomb threat email was received by the educational institutions on the morning of Friday, 8 April. Image used for representative purposes. 

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Around seven schools in Bengaluru were evacuated after a bomb threat email was received by the educational institutions on the morning of Friday, 8 April. The email sent to one of the schools at 11:09 am claimed that a "very powerful bomb" had been placed in the schools.

The police were informed immediately after the emails were received, and searches are being conducted by the bomb squad within the premises of the schools.

The email said that a bomb has been planted in the school and that it was “not a joke.” “Immediately call the police and sappers, hundreds of lives may suffer, including yours, do not delay, now everything is only in your hands,” the email stated, as per screenshots being circulated on social media.

DCP (East Zone) Bheemashankar Guled said that police officers in the area received calls from two schools about the incident – Indian Public School in Govindpura limits and the St Vincent Pallotti school, The News Minute reported. Officers have been deputed to the spot and are investigating the situation, he was quoted as saying.

The DCP noted that the identity of those behind the bomb threats had not been ascertained yet.

Such Calls Are Mostly Hoaxes: Police

Meanwhile, Additional Commissioner (West) A Subramanyeshwara Rao said that most such bomb threats turn out to be false.

"99 percent of bomb threats like these turn out to be hoax later and there was no need for parents and students to get panicky. Search operations were being conducted in the premises of the schools without disturbing the ongoing examinations," he was quoted as saying by IANS.

Conspiracy On To Disturb Peace of Karnataka: CM Bommai

Responding to the development, CM Basavaraj Bommai said, "A conspiracy is on to disturb peace in the state. Karnataka is a progressive state and some elements are repeatedly trying to tarnish this image," reported ANI. He added that the state police has been instructed to consider the cases seriously.

Assuring that those who made the threat calls would be traced and arrested, CM Bommai further asked parents not to worry as the government will be putting all the necessary precautions, and safety measures in place. Thorough investigation will be done, he said.

(With inputs from ANI, IANS and The News Minute.)