Several schools in Delhi received bomb threat emails on Friday morning, causing widespread concern before authorities declared the threats a hoax. The emails contained disturbing content and prompted thorough search operations and heightened security measures.
Police made an appeal to people to not believe in the audio messages that have surfaced on WhatsApp groups making false claims about the bomb threat that schools in Delhi-NCR received on Wednesday morning.
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The Delhi Police said it has conducted a thorough check of all schools that received the bomb threat but found nothing.
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The three accused were brought to the national capital from Una and after questioning they were arrested, the officer said.
Two school children of DAV school were abducted in Begusarai district on Thursday. Both were sons of a businessman and were abducted on their way to school.
Police has launched an operation to recover the abducted school children.
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