Several Delhi hospitals receive bomb threat emails, search operations underway

New Delhi, Aug 20 (PTI) Several hospitals in Delhi on Tuesday received bomb threat emails, prompting authorities to launch searches on their premises, officials said.

A call was received at 1.04 pm from a hospital in Nangloi and another from Primus Hospital at 1.07 pm in central Delhi’s Chanakya Puri informing that they had received bomb threats, a Delhi Fire Services (DFS) official said.

Fire tenders, bomb detection teams and police rushed to the spots. A thorough checking is being conducted, the official said.

Further details are awaited.