Ambience Mall in Gurugram evacuated following bomb threat email, police calls it a hoax

Ambience Mall in Gurugram was evacuated on Saturday after receiving an email alleging that a bomb had been hidden in the shopping mall premises, police said. They claimed that search and rescue teams, including with bomb squads and dog teams, are present at the location.

Police reported that at 9:27 a.m., Ambience Mall management got a bomb threat email. 

The email, which was sent from hiddenbones101@gmail.com, stated, read, “I planted bombs in the building. Every person inside the building will be killed, none of you will escape. You deserve death. I planted the bombs in the building because I hate my life. The people behind this attack are Paige and Nora,” Assistant Commissioner of Police, DLF, Vikas Kaushik said nothing suspicious had been found in the search operation so far.

He further added that 70 per cent of the mall is sanitised and teams, including the bomb disposal squad and the dog squad, are thoroughly checking every corner of the mall. However, nothing suspicious has been found (so far).

All malls in Gurugram district gets bomb threat

Meanwhile, ANI reported that visitors and staff members were evacuated from malls in Gurugram on Saturday after district administration received a bomb threat to all the malls in the district via email, officials said. Beginning around 10 am today, teams of police administration, dog squad and civil defence team carried out a search operation, Mohit Sharma, Chief Civil Defence Team, Gurugram said.

The Gurugram Police asked the public not to panic in an official statement. It stated that it is working to identify the source of these emails and that thus far, it has discovered them to be hoaxes intended to frighten individuals.

Mock drill in Noida’s DLF Mall of India

On the other hand, several people were evacuated from the DLF Mall of India in Sector 18 Noida on Saturday, raising concerns about a bomb threat. The mall authorities stated around 1:35 p.m that it was a security drill, however, the police have not yet released a statement on the matter.

A man, who identified himself as Avinash, said in a post on X that he was watching a movie when the audiences were asked to leave. “Whole Noida DLF mall is being evacuated, called as a mock drill,” he posted on X. In another post on the social media platform, he shared the image of a vehicle of the bomb disposal squad at the mall and wondered if it was “still a mock drill”.

(with inputs from agencies)