Bengaluru schools receive bomb threat, emergency response pressed in

Bengaluru police swung into action after 5 schools in the city received bomb threats on Friday. "A very powerful bomb has been planted in your school, this is not a joke. Immediately call the police and sappers, hundreds of lives may suffer, including yours, do not delay, now everything is only in your hands," the threat mail stated.

Bomb squads have been deployed at the locations. Senior police officers visited the schools. Reacting to the mail, Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Kamal Pant said that four schools on the outskirts of Bengaluru have received a bomb threat through email, our local police are checking about it."