Four more Hospitals in Delhi receive bomb threat emails

New Delhi: Four more hospitals in Delhi received bomb threat email on Tuesday morning days after similar messages were sent to the Delhi Airport and over half a dozen government hospitals in the city. However, after investigation, Delhi Fire Services (DFS) officials confirmed that these threats were indeed hoaxes.

According to Delhi Fire Service officials, they received calls from the Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital, GTB Hospital, Dada Dev Hospital, and Hedgewar Hospital about the bomb threat emails. 

Bomb disposal squads along with personnel of the fire department and local police rushed to the spot and conducted searches, reports news agency ANI.

According to Delhi Police, IGI Airport received an email from an unidentified account on Sunday afternoon about the presence of an explosive device inside the premises.

Initially, similar emails were received at two government hospitals, including Burari Government Hospital, and Mangolpuri's Sanjay Gandhi Hospital on Sunday afternoon, DCP North Manoj Meena.

The Delhi Police acted swiftly and started an investigation.

While Delhi Police and Fire Services Department teams were carrying out search operations at these places, five other government hospitals in the national capital also reported receiving bomb threats through emails on Sunday evening, prompting a search operation at all locations simultaneously.

The hospitals that got bomb threat emails included-- Dada Dev Hospital in Dabri, Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital in Hari Nagar, Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital in Dilshad Garden, Hindu Rao Hospital in Malka Ganj, and Aruna Asaf Ali Govt Hospital of Rajpur Road.

These recent threats echo the alarming trend witnessed nearly two weeks prior when numerous schools in Delhi-NCR received similar email threats

According to the Delhi Police, a total of 131 schools received threat emails on May 1. Later, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an official statement calling the email a 'hoax.'  

As per a media report in The Indian Express, Officials at Deep Chand Bandhu and Delhi State Cancer Institute (DSCI) said the Delhi Police and a bomb squad were inspecting the premises. The mail was received on Monday night but the hospital authorities saw it in the morning and immediately informed the police. The outpatient department (OPD) registrations at both hospitals had been stopped, but the admitted patients were still inside, they said.