{"id":9291,"date":"2024-12-09T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T08:46:15","slug":"dozens-of-schools-in-delhi-get-bomb-threats-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/dozens-of-schools-in-delhi-get-bomb-threats-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of schools in Delhi get bomb threats: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40 schools received a bomb threat by email in Delhi on Monday demanding $30,000,&nbsp;<em>ANI<\/em>&nbsp;news agency said, while police officials conducted initial searches on school premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools, railway stations and airports this year have been subject to hundreds of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1866587\">bomb threats<\/a>, which have later turned out to be hoaxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airlines and airports in India received 999 hoax bomb threats from the start of the year until mid-November, and 12 people had been arrested during the same period, government data shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two schools got the threatening email on Sunday night, which said multiple bombs were planted inside buildings and would be detonated if the sender was not paid $30,000, according to&nbsp;<em>ANI<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many other schools received the emails on Monday morning, prompting school authorities to call parents to take the students home for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents were seen picking their children up from the gates of some schools as police checked school premises for suspicious items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police officials in Delhi did not immediately respond to a request for comment from&nbsp;<em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, more than 50 schools in Delhi and the adjoining suburb of Noida received similar bomb threat emails that turned out to be hoaxes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40 schools received a bomb threat by email in Delhi on Monday demanding $30,000,&nbsp;ANI&nbsp;news agency said, while police officials conducted initial searches on school premises. Schools, railway stations and airports this year have been subject to hundreds of&nbsp;bomb threats, which have later turned out to be hoaxes. Airlines and airports in India received [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}