Threatening Emails Sent To Ahmedabad Schools; Police On High Alert

Upon receiving information about the threatening emails, police teams, along with bomb squads, promptly arrived at various schools across ahmedabad.

Police reassured the public that there was no need for panic and emphasized that an alert had been issued a day prior to the Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat. The polling for the 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state is scheduled for May 7 (Tuesday).

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The previous week, over 150 schools in Delhi-NCR and one in Lucknow received bomb threat emails, leading to large-scale evacuations. However, the police later confirmed that the emails were hoaxes.

Sources revealed that preliminary investigations indicated the IP address used to send the threatening emails to over 150 schools in Delhi-NCR originated from Russia. However, Delhi Police suspected that the IP address might have been masked through a VPN.

A police officer stated that the threatening emails were sent from the email ID ‘sawariim@mail.ru’. The term “Sawarim” is commonly used by the terror group Islamic State (IS) in their propaganda videos over the past several years, according to the official.