More than 50 hospitals across Mumbai, including Jaslok Hospital, Raheja Hospital, Seven Hills Hospital, Koh Noor Hospital, KEM Hospital, JJ Hospital and St. George Hospital, have received bomb threats via email. The Mumbai Police confirmed that the threatening emails were sent using a VPN network.
The identity of the sender and the reason behind the threat are yet to be ascertained, police said.
According to ANI, a fake email threatening to blow up Hinduja College of Commerce in Mumbai was also received by the institute.
“Local police and bomb squad reached the spot and started investigation but nothing suspicious was found. Mumbai's VP Road police station is investigating the matter,” ANI quoted the police as saying. Ai told the police.
The bomb threats came on the same day that 41 airports, including those in Chennai, Patna and Jaipur, received similar threats, prompting authorities to take emergency measures and conduct counter-sabotage checks that lasted for hours. And every one of them was a fraud. .
The e-mails received by the airports carried a nearly identical message: “Hello, there are explosives hidden in the airport. The bombs will go off soon. You will all die.”
After receiving the threat, officials at Nagpur and Patna airports conducted a thorough search of their premises but found nothing.
Patna Airport Director Anchal Prakash said, “Apart from J Prakash Narayan International Airport, 41 other airports received bomb threats via e-mail. A Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) meeting was called.” was… and he found this threat unspecific.”
At the Chennai airport, a Dubai-bound flight with 286 passengers was delayed as a result of the fraud.
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