Several Jaipur hospitals receive bomb threat via email, police investigation underway

Bomb disposal squads and police teams were rushed to at least four hospitals including CK Birla and Monilek Hospitals in Jaipur Aug 18 after they reported receiving bomb threats via email early morning.

The emails claimed that bombs were placed under hospital beds and in bathrooms, and mentioned that “terrorists ching and cultist” were responsible for the planned “massacre,” PTI reported.

"I placed the bomb in the hospital building. The bombs are hidden under hospital beds and inside bathrooms. Every person inside the hospital will be killed or will lose limbs. None of you will escape." read the email sent to the hospitals.

"You will end up in a pool of blood. You all deserve nothing but death,” it adds. The terrorists 'Ching and Cultist' are behind this MASSACRE," it reads further. The emails were received around 7 AM. Police is investigating the nature of threat emails and the source behind them.

Jaipur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph told PTI, "So far, four hospitals have received such (bomb threat) emails. More hospitals are likely to confirm as and when they check emails,"

Such emails have been sent to several hospitals in Jaipur amid protests by doctors and healthcare staff against the Kolkata rape-murder case.

The emails have come just a day after a bomb threat was reported at Ambience Mall in Gurugram, Haryana, which after thorough searches was found to be a hoax. Also. a prominent mall in Navi Mumbai’s Vashi area was evacuated on Aug 17 following a bomb threat received via email, which also turned out to be a false alarm.

Earlier in May, around 250 schools in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) were targeted with similar threats via emails, leading to large-scale evacuations and searches. However, no explosives were found, and the threats were eventually deemed a mass hoax.

The emails were sent through a virtual private network (VPN), which masked the sender’s location by routing the data through foreign servers. In the case of the school threats, the emails were traced to a Russian company’s mailing service, according to media reports.