Over 50 hospitals in Mumbai including Jaslok Hospital, Raheja Hospital, Seven Hill Hospital, Kohinoor Hospital, KEM Hospital, JJ Hospital, St. George Hospital and others received bomb threats via email on Tuesday.
The threat emails were sent using a VPN Network. The identity of the sender and the motive of the threat are yet to be ascertained, Mumbai Police said in a statement.
An investigation into the matter is underway to determine the individual or group behind the threatening emails.
Quoting Mumbai police sources, a report in Lokmattimes said the email was sent from an email ID on Beeble.com, a site whose server was found to be located in Cyprus.
State-run SSKM Hospital and Rabindra Bharati University In West Bengal also received bomb threat emails on Tuesday, prompting a search by the police. Police teams and bomb squad conducted a thorough search of both places but did not find anything suspicious.
The threat mails, however, turned out to be hoax, officials were quoted by PTI as saying.
Earlier in the day, airports across India, including Delhi and Chennai, were put on high alert after several received bomb threats via email.
The office of the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport received the email at 9:35 am, which stated that there was a bomb inside a Dubai-bound aircraft. The mail, however, had no details about the airline or the flight number.
According to police, the sender sent a similar bomb threat to several other airports in the country around 12:40 pm.
Officials at the Chennai airport said upon receiving the bomb threat, security agencies conducted a thorough search of a Dubai-bound Emirates flight carrying 286 passengers. The threat, however, turned out to be a hoax. The plane, scheduled to depart around 9:50 am, got delayed by two hours.
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