Delhi's North Block receives bomb threat; security officers conduct searches

North Block, which houses several ministries inlcuding the Home Ministry, on Wednesday received a bomb threat through an email, said an official of Delhi Fire Services.

The DFS official said a dog squad and bomb disposal and detection teams along with police and fire department personnel are conducting searches.

The call to the DFS was made after an officer posted at the North Block received the bomb threat email, a police officer said.


Searches are on and, as of now, nothing suspicious has been found, the officer said.

Bomb threats in Delhi
Recently, schools, hospitals and airports have been targeted by bomb threats. Previously, Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport and over half a dozen government hospitals in the national capital received bomb threats through emails, Delhi police said that nothing suspicious was found.

The hospitals that got bomb threat emails include -- Dada Dev Hospital in Dabri, Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital in Hari Nagar, Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital in Dilshad Garden, Hindu Rao Hospital in Malka Ganj, and Aruna Asaf Ali Govt Hospital of Rajpur Road. Soon after the bomb threats, a search operation was launched at all places.

On May 1, bomb threat targeted over 100 schools in Delhi-NCR. According to the Delhi Police, a total of 131 schools received threat emails on May 1. Later, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an official statement calling the email a 'hoax.'

(with agency inputs)