Chandigarh's Mental Health Institute gets bomb threat, Patients evacuated
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Chandigarh: A mental health institute at Sector 32, Chandigarh, received a bomb threat over email on Wednesday. The patients and employees were moved to safety and a search operation was initiated, police said.
An official of the institute claimed the same email has been sent to a number of hospitals in Delhi and south India.
A Chandigarh police official said they were searching the premises of the mental health institute but nothing has been found so far. Besides police personnel, bomb disposal squad and fire department officials have been deputed at the site.
As per a media report in The Indian Express, “A bomb has been placed inside the Mental Health Institute and it is set to detonate soon, and everyone will die,” an email sent by a user named ‘Adam Lanza’ from ‘necronecro93@gmail.com’ said. The email also says that the group ‘Terrorizers111’ is behind the act.
"In the email, it was written that there is a bomb in the hospital and everyone will die," the deputy medical superintendent said.
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