Delhi hospitals receive bomb threat: Several hospitals in Delhi have received a bomb threat email on Tuesday, May 14, morning. Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital, GTB Hospital, Dada Dev Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital are among some of the hospitals that received the threat.
Delhi | Bomb threat email received at several hospital including Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital, GTB Hospital, Dada Dev Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital and others. Search operation underway: Delhi Fire Service
— ANI (@ANI) May 14, 2024
— ANI (@ANI) The Delhi Fire Services has ensured that the search operations are underway.
Officials said that they had received calls from the GTB Hospital, Dada Dev Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital, and Deep Chandra Bandhu Hospital reporting bomb threat emails.
Officials at Deep Chand Bandhu and Delhi State Cancer Institute (DSCI) say an inspection is ongoing by the Delhi police and a team of bomb squad. The mail was received in the night, but the hospital authorities saw it in the morning and immediately informed the SHO.
The OPD registrations at both the hospitals have been stopped but the patients admitted are still inside.
According to a DFS official, the spate of calls began at 10.45 am.The first hospital to call was Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital in north Delhi’s Ashok Vihar at 9.45 am. The second call came at 10.55 am from Dada Dev Hospital in Dabri in southwest Delhi, the third at 11.01 am from Hedgewar Hospital in east Delhi’s Farsh Bazar and the fourth at 11.12 am from GTB Hospital in Shahdara, also in east Delhi.
“Police and the bomb disposal squad are conducting the checks. We have also conducted checks twice. Nothing suspicious has been found so far,” said V K Sharma, security officer at Hedgewar Hospital. The mail about an explosive in the hospital was received by a doctor at the hospital, he said.
“Once they clear the area we will resume our services,” says Director, DSCI, Dr Vatsala Agarwal who is also the medical superintendent at Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital.
This is the fourth time in the last one month that various places, including schools, have received such threats. Prior to this, similar bomb threats were received by over 100 schools in Delhi-NCR, and a few other cities such as Jaipur. On Sunday afternoon, 20 hospitals, the IGI Airport and the Northern Railways’ CPRO office in Delhi had also received bomb threats through emails.
(With agency inputs)