Anxious parents, cops combing premises: Similar scenes across Delhi schools that got hoax bomb emails
By noon, hundreds of calls and messages had gone out to parents asking them to take their children home. To quell anxiety, schools resorted to using loudspeakers to tell parents to wait for their child’s name to be called out.
Students being evacuated from Andhra Education Society, DDU Marg, in Delhi. Anil Sharma Anxious parents waiting outside school gates even as police personnel and fire tenders rushed in, loudspeakers broadcasting messages asking them to stay calm, dog squads combing every classroom and hall for possible threats — similar scenes of panic played out at over 150 schools across Delhi and NCR following bomb threat emails on Wednesday morning.
By noon, hundreds of calls and messages had gone out to parents asking them to take their children home. To quell anxiety, schools resorted to using loudspeakers to tell parents to wait for their child’s name to be called out.
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.”
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