Karnataka: 40 Bengaluru Schools Receive Bomb Threat, Investigation Underway

Visual from one of the schools that received a bomb threat. (Photo source: Bengaluru Police)

More than 40 private schools in Bengaluru reportedly received bomb threats on Friday. 

This development comes hours after more than 20 schools in Delhi reportedly received bomb threats via email today. Abhinav Public School in Rohini Sector 3, Richmondd Global School in Paschim Vihar, Modern International School in Dwarka and The Sovereign School in Rohini are among those that received the threat emails, according to the officials. The latest incident follows similar threats earlier in the week. 

Bengaluru city police, along withthe  bomb squad and dog squad, have reached the schools and are conducting an investigation and inspection.

The threat email has emerged from the id "roadkill333@ atomic mail. io". The accused had stated in the email: "Hello, I am writing to let you know that I have placed several explosive devices (Trinitrotoluene) within the school classrooms."

Further, it mentioned in capital letters, "I will erase every last one of you from this world. Not a single soul will survive. I will gladly laugh when I will watch the news. Only to see the parents show up at the school and to be greeted by the cold, dismembered bodies of their children. You all deserve to suffer. I truly hate my life, I will commit suicide after the news kick in. I will slit my throat and slit my wrists. I was never truly helped. Psychiatrists, psychologists, no one has ever cared, and no one will ever care. You only care about medicating the helpless and clueless humans. Psychiatrists never tell you that those meds ruin your organs or that they cause disgusting weight gain."

The email further said, "You brainwash people into thinking psychiatric meds can help them. But, they don't. I am living proof that they do not. You all deserve this. You deserve to suffer just like me."

More details are yet to emerge regarding the development.

On December 1, 2023, more than 15 private schools in Bengaluru received bomb threats through email and raised concerns. The threats had later turned hoax.

Following the development, tension prevailed in the premises of the schools. The threat was given on the official email IDs of the schools, and it came to light when the staff opened them in the morning.

(With IANS Inputs)