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Gurugram School Cleared After Hoax Bomb Email

Police focus on tracing the sender to stop a run of hoax emails to Gurugram schools.

Overview

  • The hoax threat surfaced after staff saw a 1:20 am email Wednesday and alerted Gurugram Police.
  • Teams from the DLF Phase 1 station, with dog and bomb disposal squads, searched classrooms and grounds and found no explosives, and officers declared the campus safe.
  • The email, written in English in the name of "Soyeb Masood," claimed there was a bomb in the school building.
  • Investigators said they are working to identify the sender and the technical source of the message.
  • This incident follows threats to over 40 schools on January 28 and more than 10 in March, and police earlier arrested a Bangladeshi man who said he created the January emails and sold them for 250 dollars.