Delhi Airport, Govt Hospitals Get Bomb Threat Emails; Search Underway

The IGI Airport received a bomb threat through email from an unidentified account on Sunday afternoon. The sender threatened the presence of an explosive device inside the premises.

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New Delhi: Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport and over half a dozen government hospitals in Delhi received bomb threats through email on Sunday, sending authorities at the respective establishments into a tizzy. Soon after the bomb threats, a search operation was launched at all places.

According to Delhi Police, IGI Airport received a bomb threat through email from an unidentified account on Sunday afternoon. The sender threatened the presence of an explosive device inside the premises.

Similar emails were received at two government hospitals, including Burari Government Hospital, and Mangolpuri's Sanjay Gandhi Hospital on Sunday afternoon.
The Delhi Police swiftly acted upon receiving the information regarding the threatening emails and started an investigation.

"Bomb threat emails received at Burari Government Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Mangolpuri this afternoon, and search operation underway," DCP North Manoj Meena said. "IGI Airport also received a bomb threat email," he added.

While Delhi Police and Fire Services Department teams were carrying out search operations at these places, five other government hospitals in the national capital also reported receiving bomb threats through emails on Sunday evening, prompting a search operation at all locations simultaneously.

The list of these hospitals includes -- Dada Dev Hospital in Dabri, Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital in Hari Nagar, Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital in Dilshad Garden, Hindu Rao Hospital of Malka Ganj, and Aruna Asaf Ali Govt Hospital of Rajpur Road.

"Delhi Fire Services department and Delhi Police got information through PCR call, bomb squad, dog squad team have been sent to all these places," Police said. "Checking for any suspicious activity is underway at these hospitals. Nothing has been found yet," they added.

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Telangana	Adilabad (ST)	INC	Atram Suguna	BJP	G. Nagesh	BRS	Atram Sakku
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Tamil Nadu	Salem	DMK	T. M. Selvaganapathi	PMK	Annadurai	AIADMK	P. Vignesh
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Tamil Nadu	Nilgiris	DMK	A. Raja	BJP	L. Murugan	AIADMK	D. Lokesh Tamilselvan
Tamil Nadu	Coimbatore	DMK	Ganapathi Raj Kumar	BJP	K. Annamalai	AIADMK	Singai G. Ramachandran
Tamil Nadu	Pollachi	DMK	Eswarasamy	BJP	K. Vasantharajan	AIADMK	A. Karthikeyan
Tamil Nadu	Dindigul	CPI(M)	R. Sachidanandam	PMK	M. Thilagabama	AIADMK	V. M. S. Mohamed Mubarak[N 3]
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Tamil Nadu	Chidambaram	VCK	Thol. Thirumavalavan	BJP	P. Karthiyayini	AIADMK	M. Chandrahaasan
Tamil Nadu	Mayiladuthurai	INC	R Sudha	PMK	Ma. Ka. Stalin	AIADMK	P. Babu
Tamil Nadu	Nagapattinam	CPI	V. Selvaraj	BJP	SGM Ramesh	AIADMK	G. Surjith Sankar
Tamil Nadu	Thanjavur	DMK	Murasoli	BJP	M. Muruganandam	DMDK	P. Sivanesan
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Tamil Nadu	Virudhunagar	INC	B. Manickam Tagore	BJP	R. Radikaa	DMDK	V. Vijaya Prabakaran
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Tamil Nadu	Thoothukkudi	DMK	Kanimozhi Karunanidhi	TMC(M)	S. D. R. Vijayaseelan	AIADMK	R. Sivasamy Velumani
Tamil Nadu	Tenkasi	DMK	Rani Srikumar	BJP	B. John Pandian[N 1]	AIADMK	K. Krishnasamy[N 3]
Tamil Nadu	Tirunelveli	INC	C. Robert Bruce	BJP	Nainar Nagendran	AIADMK	M. Jansi Rani
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Maharashtra	Nandurbar (ST)	INC	Adv.Gowaal K Padavi	BJP	Heena Gavit
Maharashtra	Dhule	INC	Dr.Shobha Dinesh Bachhav	BJP	Subhash Bhamre
Maharashtra	Jalgaon	SS(UBT)	Karan Pawar	BJP	Smita Wagh
Maharashtra	Raver	NCP(SP)	Shriram Patil	BJP	Raksha Khadse
Maharashtra	Buldhana	SS(UBT)	Narendra Khedekar	SHS	Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav
Maharashtra	Akola	INC	Dr.Abhay Kashinath Patil	BJP	Anup Dhotre
Maharashtra	Amravati (SC)	INC	Balwant Basawant Wankhede	BJP	Navneet Kaur Rana
Maharashtra	Wardha	NCP(SP)	Amar Sharadrao Kale	BJP	Ramdas Tadas
Maharashtra	Ramtek (SC)	INC	Shyamkumar Daulat Barve	SHS	Raju Devnath Parwe
Maharashtra	Nagpur	INC	Vikas Thakare	BJP	Nitin Gadkari
Maharashtra	Bhandara-Gondiya	INC	Dr.Prashant Yadavrao Padole	BJP	Sunil Mendhe
Maharashtra	Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST)	INC	Dr.Namdeo Dasaram Kirsan	BJP	Ashok Nete
Maharashtra	Chandrapur	INC	Pratibha Suresh Dhanorkar	BJP	Sudhir Mungantiwar
Maharashtra	Yavatmal-Washim	SS(UBT)	Sanjay Deshmukh	SHS	Rajashri Hemant Patil
Maharashtra	Hingoli	SS(UBT)	Nagesh Bapurao Patil Ashtikar	SHS	Baburao Kadam Kohalikar
Maharashtra	Nanded	INC	Vasantrao Balwantrao Chavan	BJP	Prataprao Govindrao Chikhalikar
Maharashtra	Parbhani	SS(UBT)	Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav	RSPS	Mahadev Jankar
Maharashtra	Jalna	INC	Dr.Kalyan Kale	BJP	Raosaheb Danve
Maharashtra	Aurangabad	SS(UBT)	Chandrakant Khaire
Maharashtra	Dindori (ST)	NCP(SP)	Bhaskar Bhagare	BJP	Bharati Pawar
Maharashtra	Nashik	SS(UBT)	Rajabhau Waje
Maharashtra	Palghar (ST)	SS(UBT)	Bharti Kamdi	BJP
Maharashtra	Bhiwandi	NCP(SP)	Suresh Mhatre	BJP	Kapil Patil
Maharashtra	Kalyan	SS(UBT)	Vaishali Darekar Rane	SHS	Shrikant Shinde
Maharashtra	Thane	SS(UBT)	Rajan Vichare
Maharashtra	Mumbai North	INC		BJP	Piyush Goyal
Maharashtra	Mumbai North West	SS(UBT)	Amol Kirtikar
Maharashtra	Mumbai North East	SS(UBT)	Sanjay Dina Patil	BJP	Mihir Kotecha
Maharashtra	Mumbai North Central	INC		BJP
Maharashtra	Mumbai South Central	SS(UBT)	Anil Desai	SHS	Rahul Shewale
Maharashtra	Mumbai South	SS(UBT)	Arvind Sawant
Maharashtra	Raigad	SS(UBT)	Anant Geete	NCP	Sunil Tatkare

These bomb threat emails come nearly two weeks after multiple schools in Delhi-NCR received bomb threats via email. According to the Delhi Police, a total of 131 schools received threat emails on May 1. However, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an official statement calling the email a 'hoax.'