Anxious parents, cops combing premises: Similar scenes across Delhi schools that got hoax bomb emails

Waiting alongside other panic-stricken parents outside GD Goenka School in Sarita Vihar around noon, Sunita Verma (35), whose 14-year-old son studies at the school, said: “I got to know about the bomb scare much before I received a call from the school administration as a lot of my friends’ children study here. All of us rushed to school as we live nearby… the authorities did not tell us much and only declared a holiday for today… we are grateful that nothing has been found by police.”

A parent waiting outside St Giri Public School in Sarita Vihar, Rajender Sharma, 34, told The Indian Express, “My son and daughter study at the school… The authorities called me around 11 am to take back my children… then I saw the news… and I rushed frantically to the school on my bike from Badarpur… I spoke to parents of my son’s classmates and found out that several schools had received a hoax bomb email.”

He added that he and his wife were very anxious on hearing about the incident. “The son of one my friends, who studies at Summer Fields School, was also sent back home after the school received a hoax bomb threat…,” added Sharma.

A parent, whose daughter studies at DTEA Senior Secon-dary School, RK Puram, said: “As soon as I heard about the threat, I rushed here… By then, students were evacuated from the building and taken to a nearby park.”

Anjali, a Class IX student of Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, Geeta Colony, said, “It was a normal morning but all of a sudden, we saw several parents arriving at the gate… Our teachers, however, told us to not panic about the bomb threat… they allowed students to go home with their parents.”

Schools, meanwhile, had their hands full evacuating students and answering parents’ queries.

The Amity Group spokesperson said, “Amity Pushp Vihar and Saket also received bomb threats and have been evacuated on instructions from the police. The school has been closed for today till further instructions.”

“Five schools in the Southwest district are evacuating schools,” said Sudha Acharya, Principal, ITL Public School and former chairperson of the National Progressive Schools Conference.