Police in India’s capital, Delhi, have checked over 40 schools following anonymous bomb threats, according to a police official.
According to ANI, schools received emails threatening to explode bombs unless $30,000 (£23,582) was paid to the sender.
No bombs have been discovered yet, but authorities have not confirmed whether the threats are genuine.
Hoax bomb warnings have frequently caused mayhem in India’s schools, railway stations, and airports, particularly this year.
As of November 14, India’s airlines and airports had received roughly 1,000 false bomb threats this year, resulting in lengthy delays and aircraft diversions.
It’s still unclear what caused the big increase this year versus previous years.
In May, hundreds of pupils were evacuated from around 100 learning centres in and around Delhi after receiving phoney bomb threats via email.
Videos from Monday showed parents picking up their children from school in the morning.
“This is the second time this year that something like this has happened. It is wrong and affects our child’s education,” a parent picking up his child told news agency IANS.
According to ANI, two schools received the emails on Sunday night and the rest on Monday morning.
A Delhi Police spokeswoman told local media that they were working to determine the origin of the email and identify the sender.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi (who uses only one name) has accused the federal government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of failing to safeguard people’s safety.
“After daily incidents of ransom, murders, and shootings in Delhi, now we are receiving threats of school bombings,” she wrote on X.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) governs Delhi, but the police are accountable to the federal home ministry. The federally appointed lieutenant governor, Delhi’s constitutional ruler, has yet to comment on the bomb threats.
