2 Delhi schools receive bomb threats, students sent back home

Two Delhi schools received bomb threats via e-mail on Monday, The schools that received the bomb threats are Delhi Public School in RK Puram and GD Goenka Public School in Paschim Vihar. 

The Delhi Fire Department was apprised of the same at around 7 am on Monday. Due to these threats, the school administrations have sent the students back home. The Delhi Police has also been informed. 

A Delhi Police team reached DPS RK Puram after being apprised of the bomb threat. More details are awaited. 

The latest bomb threats come over a month after CRPF schools across India, including 2 in Delhi and 1 in Hyderabad, received bomb threats via e-mail. On October 20, a powerful blast ripped through the wall of a CRPF school in Delhi’s Rohini area.

The blast outside the CRPF school in Rohini’s Prashant Vihar damaged nearby shops and vehicles while making a hole on the building’s wall. No casualties or injuries were, however, reported as a result of the incident. 

A CRPF school in Tamil Nadu was the first one to get a bomb threat on October 21, after which an alert was sent to all the affiliated schools in the country, the Delhi Police said at the time. The Delhi Police further mentioned that the threats were a hoax.