Delhi Schools Bomb Threat: As many as six schools in the national capital including the Delhi Public School in Defence Colony received bomb threats on Friday, reported ANI citing Delhi Police. The schools received threats via emails today.

The schools that received the threats included the Bhatnagar Public School in Paschim Vihar, Cambridge School in Srinivaspuri, Delhi Public School in East of Kailash, Delhi Public School in Defence Colony, Delhi Police Public School in Safdarjung Enclave and Venkatesh Public School in Rohini.

Fire officials and police are present on the spot and conducting searches. Nothing suspicious has been found yet, said Delhi Police.

This marks the second bomb threat incident in Delhi within a week. On December 9, more than 40 schools across Delhi received bomb threats. Delhi Public School in RK Puram and GD Goenka Public School in Paschim Vihar were among the schools targeted via email. The Delhi Fire Department was notified about this around 7 AM.

The threat email said, "This email is to inform you that there are many explosives in your school premises and I am sure that you all do not check your student's bags frequently when they enter the school premises. A secret dark web group is involved in this activity and many red rooms also. The bombs are powerful enough to destroy the buildings and harm people."

"It is confidential that the bombs will be blasted on the 13th of December or the 14th of December. But, surely, the bombs are planted right now. But it is super confidential that it will blast on 13th December or 14th December. We're pretty sure that you don't check your students' backs while they enter your school premises to start their school day, and you all schools have similar school timings. Reply back to this email for our demands, otherwise the bombs will be detonated," it added.

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Following the incident, the parents of the students were also informed that the schools were closed. Speaking about the same, a parent said, "We received a message (from the school). The message reads that school is closed due to unavoidable circumstances. There is no disclosure of bombs, hoax calls etc. We received the message around 6 AM. We are heading back to home."

In another separate incident, the Guwahati railway station and seven locations on the Gauhati University campus received bomb threats on Thursday.

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Guwahati Police Commissioner Diganta Barah said the Meghalaya Police Control Room in Shillong received a call stating that a bomb might be planted at the Guwahati railway station.

"Accordingly, we started the investigation with Meghalaya Police and also carried out precautionary measures at the station. We have so far not found any such object," he told PTI.

(With inputs from agency)