One more Noida school gets bomb threat mail

Another private school in Noida received a bomb threat email early Friday morning, making it the fifth school in the city to receive such a threat in just three days, said senior police officers aware of the matter.

- Arun Singh

NOIDA: They declared the email a hoax after a thorough search of the school premises.

A private school and a prestigious college in Delhi also received similar bomb threat emails on Friday morning, prompting the Delhi Police to carry out anti-sabotage checks using bomb detection and disposal squad (BDS) and sniffer dogs, said senior police officers from Delhi.

On Wednesday, four private schools in Noida -Step by Step, The Heritage, Gyanshree, and Mayoor School-had received bomb threat emails. After a thorough search of schools' premises, these mails were declared hoaxes. By late Wednesday, a 14-year-old student of class 9 was detained for sending threat mails to these schools as he did not want to go to school.

Noida police said Shiv Nadar School in Sector 168 received the bomb threat email early Friday morning and the school immediately alerted the police.

"On Friday around 7.30am, we were alerted that Shiv Nadar School received a bomb threat email on its official mail ID. A police team, a bomb detection squad, firefighters, and a dog squad were rushed to the spot and all students were safely removed from the school premises," said Ram Badan Singh, deputy commissioner of police, Noida.