1. 48 schools get threat email in and around Bengaluru, children sent back home
Panic gripped parents following an email threat received by as many as 48 schools in and around Bengaluru on Friday, December 1. The school administrations tipped off the police before sending alerts to parents about the emergency situation, requesting them to take their children home.
Police, along with the bomb disposal squad, rushed to the schools and conducted search operations. The threat email warns of explosive devices on school grounds. While Bengaluru Police Commissioner B. Dayananda has said that the mails seem to be a hoax — the second such incident targetting schools in recent times — a special cybercrime team is trying to track down the culprits using records of the masked IP address.
