Delhi News: Dubai-bound flight receives bomb threat email
A Dubai-bound flight received a bomb threat email at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) on Monday, officials said, adding that nothing suspicious was found during the flight.
"An email was received at 9.35 am on Monday at the DIAL office at IGI airport warning of a bomb attack on the Delhi-Dubai flight. No bomb was found during inspection of the aircraft," a senior police official said.
In recent months, Delhi has received a number of bomb threats against schools, museums and medical facilities. However, no bomb was found in the national capital. On June 12, two museums, National Museum and Railway Museum, and two psychiatric facilities, IHBAS (Institute of Human Behavioural and Allied Sciences) and VIMHANS (Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health, Neurology and Allied Sciences), received e-mails containing bomb threats. The National Museum at Kartavya Path, Railway Museum at Chanakyapuri, Gandhi Museum at Daryaganj and several other places received e-mails alleging that bombs had been planted on their premises, officials said. They added that two other medical institutions, IHBAS at Shahdara and Vimhans Hospital at Lajpat Nagar, also received threatening e-mails with the same content. Following the tip-off and information about these e-mails, bomb detection teams, bomb disposal services, fire brigade and local police conducted thorough inspection of the premises. However, nothing suspicious was found at any of the places.
In another similar incident, Chachaner Hospital in Delhi also received a bomb threat on April 30. On May 1, over 150 schools were threatened with emails from a Russia-based email service. On May 14, seven hospitals in Delhi and Tihar Jail received bomb threats from the same Cyprus-based postal service. On May 22, North Block, which houses the Ministry of Home Affairs offices, received a bomb threat email using the domain gmail.com.
The Special Cell of Delhi Police is investigating the bomb threats made via email.
