Several schools in Amritsar received bomb threat emails, students evacuated

Several schools here received bomb threat emails on Friday, triggering the evacuation of students and prompting the authorities to launch anti-sabotage checks.

Panic-stricken parents rushed to schools to pick up their children while the district administration ordered the closure of all schools across

Amritsar. “Some schools across the city and rural belt have received a suspicious email.

A Gazetted Officer is deployed at each school, and anti-sabotage checks are underway. The Cyber Police Station is tracking on a war footing the source of the mail,” Amritsar Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said in a statement.