Delhi: DPS Dwarka receives bomb threat, search operations underway
Delhi Public School, Dwarka received a bomb threat on Monday morning. The school premises has been evacuated and a search has been launched to locate the bomb by the police and bomb squad. A dog squad has also been brought to check the premises thoroughly. The school has meanwhile declared a holiday for today and is sending back students who travel in school buses. They have asked parents of students who commute to school privately to take them home.
New Delhi: Delhi Public School (DPS), Dwarka on Monday received a bomb threat. The Police and Bomb Disposal Squad are at the spot and the school has been evacuated. The evacuation is a precautionary step as no bomb has been found yet. The Police and the bomb disposal squad are carrying out combing operations at the school premises.
Earlier bomb threats in schools of Delhi
This is however not the first time that a Delhi school has received a bomb threat. Earlier also schools across Delhi-NCR have received threat calls and mails. In July this year 45 schools across Delhi-NCR received bomb threats, sending students, teachers and their parents into a panic mode. The authorities had launched a search operation soon after.
The bomb threat however later proved to be a hoax. A similar hoax bomb threat incident was also reported in May 2024. At that time at least 100 schools across Delhi-NCR received bomb threats. The threats were sent through email. In all previous cases, the threats proved to be a hoax.
The Delhi Police meanwhile are searching the DPS Dwarka premises with dog squads for presence of any explosives or other suspicious items.
The school has sent out a notice to the parents, asking them to take their children back home. The notice sent out by the school read, "Kindly note that the school has been closed for today i.e Monday, 18 August 2025 due to unavoidable circumstances."
The school said that they were sending back students travelling to school in buses immediately. The parents of the children who commute to school privately have been asked to pick up their children from specific gates. While pre-school children would leave school from Gate number 7, those from pre-primary to Class 2, would leave from Gate number 3, students from classes 3 to 5, would leave from Gate number 4, those from Classes 6 and 7 from Gate number 5, Classes 8 and 9 from Gate number 2 and Classes 10 to 12 from Gate number 1, said the school.
The school further said that all tests, activities and other events scheduled for Monday are postponed. New dates will be announced soon, they added.