AS many as 131 schools in Delhi, five in Gurugram and three in Noida and Greater Noida were forced to evacuate their students on Wednesday morning after receiving emails that mentioned explosives being planted on school premises.
Within a few minutes, the police in the national capital and its surrounding areas swung into action even as they kept receiving PCR calls from schools, one after another.
Fire brigades were alerted and cops from almost every police station in the city began rushing to the schools “in need.” Simultaneously several teams of bomb disposal squads were deployed which launched search operations.
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