Chandigarh, Jan 28: As many as 26 schools in Chandigarh received bomb threat emails on Wednesday, triggering evacuation of students and prompting police authorities to undertake anti-sabotage checks.
Chandigarh Senior Superintendent of Police Kanwardeep Kaur said that so far, anti-sabotage checks have been conducted in 10 schools, where nothing suspicious was found and similar checks were underway in the rest of the schools.
Following a series of bomb threat emails, the Chandigarh administration advised people to remain calm and not panic.
After the school authorities informed the police about bomb threat emails on Wednesday morning, policemen reached school premises and conducted thorough searches of the educational institutions, they said.
Several government and private schools, located in sectors 25, 19, 45, 16 and other areas received the threat emails. (PTI)
