India News | Bomb Blast Threat to Two Mumbai Schools Turns out to Be Hoax

Mumbai, Jun 16 (PTI) Two reputed schools in Mumbai received e-mails threatening bomb blasts on their premises and other parts of the city, police said on Monday.

After investigations, police declared the threat as a hoax.

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A police official said a school in Deonar and another in Samta Nagar area received the threatening e-mails, written in English, on Sunday. They threatened to trigger blasts at these institutions and in various parts of Mumbai.

Police conducted a thorough investigation but no suspicious object was found.

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An FIR has been registered under relevant sections of the BNS. The cyber cell has been tracing the origin of the emails.

On Saturday, a bomb threat was received by the US Consulate in the BKC area, an official added.

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