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More than 50 schools in Delhi, and the adjoining suburb of Noida in India received the threatening email, triggering panic among parents and prompting schools to send students home.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Dozens of schools in India's national capital region were evacuated on Wednesday after they

00:08 received a bomb threat by email. More than 50 schools in Delhi and the adjoining suburb

00:13 of Noida received the threatening email triggering panic among parents and prompting schools

00:19 to send students home.

00:20 "Schools have taken action against the administration and children have been sent home. Checking

00:30 is ongoing in all schools."

00:33 Parents stood outside the gates of schools across the region waiting to pick up children

00:37 as police teams, dog squads and bomb disposal squads checked the premises. The hoax affected

00:43 thousands of school children from grades 1 to 12.

00:46 "The school took a very prompt action after it received email. All the children have been

00:52 securely removed and everybody is safe."

00:55 Delhi police later released a statement saying, "Thorough checks were conducted in the affected

01:00 schools but it appears that the calls seem to be a hoax." Police did not release any

01:05 further details about the threat.

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Dozens of schools in India's capital region evacuated after email bomb threat hoax

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