Bengaluru: Panic gripped Bengaluru last week after 68 schools received emails warning them of explosive devices planted on their premises. Parents and school authorities spent a tense and nervous few hours, and police teams were on their toes rushing from one campus to the other as complaints kept pouring in from more and more schools, before the email threats were finally declared a hoax.
Initial probe suggests the mails originated from either Czech Republic or Slovakia. This is the third such incident in the city since last year.
On April 28, 2022, more than 25 schools in and around Bengaluru had received bomb threats over emails sent from Saudi Arabia. Less than two months later, on June 15, two schools had received such mails, sent from a yet-to-be identified country in West Asia. Last week, a school in east Bengaluru was one of the first to notice the bomb threat mail around 6.30 am, following which police were alerted.
The email ID identified itself as “Kharijites”. “There are explosive devices on the school grounds. On November 26 martyrs in the way of Allah killed hundreds of idolaters It is truly powerful to hold a knife over tens of millions of thin gulps of kafirs He falls and falls Hundreds of Mujahideen flooded the war area in anticipation of martyrdom in the way of Allah You are the enemies of Allah we will kill you and your children,” the mail read.