Over 50 Delhi Schools Receive Bomb Threats, Police Probe Underway

Over 50 schools across Delhi received bomb threats via e-mail on Wednesday morning, news agency ANI reported citing police. Institutions including DAV Public School, Faith Academy, Doon Public School, and Sarvodaya Vidyalaya were among those targeted.

One of the threatening mails, reportedly sent by a group identifying itself as “Terrorizers 111”, demanded USD 25,000. Bomb squads and security personnel were rushed to several campuses, including Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in Hauz Rani, where search operations were conducted.

The incident comes just two days after a similar wave of e-mail threats targeted 32 schools in the capital, prompting evacuations and mass panic among parents. Those mails—also attributed to “Terrorizers 111”—had demanded $5,000 in cryptocurrency and claimed explosives had been planted in school buildings. All threats later turned out to be hoaxes.

Wednesday’s threats once again triggered precautionary evacuations, though no explosives have been found so far. Delhi Police said they are treating the matter with “utmost seriousness” and have launched a probe into the source of the e-mails.

Hoax bomb threats have increasingly plagued Delhi’s schools. In May last year, nearly 300 schools received threatening e-mails, all of which were false alarms. More recently, in July, a series of similar e-mails were sent to eight schools over three consecutive days, while Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College also received a threat warning of IEDs and RDX.

Authorities are now working to track the sender behind the fresh spate of e-mails.