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Rajasthan: Several Jaipur schools receive bomb threat, students evacuated
At least four schools in Rajasthan capital, Jaipur, received bomb threats via email on Monday, news agency PTI reported, citing police.
Students and staff members have been evacuated, and police teams, along with bomb and dog squads, have reached the schools.
The development comes 12 days after similar messages to more than 150 schools in Delhi-NCR sparked a scare of unprecedented scale.
“Four-five schools have received bomb threats.
Police have reached the schools,” Jaipur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph said.
On Sunday, 20 hospitals, the IGI airport and the Northern Railways' CPRO office in Delhi received bomb threats through emails.
A police officer told PTI that the e-mail was sent to one hospital with copies marked to others with the same content.
The officer said it was generated from sender id “courtgroup03@beeble.com”, which is being verified and cyber officials are trying to locate the IP address.
The Delhi Police suspects the email was sent with the help of a VPN (virtual private network) or proxy server so that the IP address could not be traced.
On May 1, over 150 schools in Delhi-NCR received an identical threat email claiming that explosives had been planted on their premises, triggering massive evacuations and searches.
The Delhi Police's anti-terror unit special cell traced the domain of e-mails to Russia and it is suspected to have been formed with the help of the dark web -- an encrypted online content that allows individuals to hide their identity and location from others.
Police received information regarding the threat from Brurari Hospital at 3pm on Sunday after which complaints came in from several other hospitals across the city and police teams were dispatched but “nothing suspicious” has been found yet, officials said.
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