Gurugram’s Ambience Mall and Noida’s DLF Mall on Saturday received a bomb threat by email, prompting the presence of police and a bomb squad at the location and creating panic among the people.
According to the police, the Ambience Mall management received a bomb threat email at 9.27 am.
The email, which was sent from [email protected], stated, read, “I planted bombs in the building. Every person inside the building will be killed, none of you will escape. You deserve death. I planted the bombs in the building because I hate my life. The people behind this attack are Paige and Nora,” Assistant Commissioner of Police, DLF, Vikas Kaushik said nothing suspicious had been found in the search operation so far.
“We have sanitised 70 per cent of the mall and our teams, including the bomb disposal squad and the dog squad, are thoroughly checking every corner of the mall… nothing suspicious has been found (so far),” he said.
In an official statement, Gurugram Police appealed to the general public to not panic.
It said so far, such emails have been found to be hoaxes meant to scare people and it is making efforts to track their source.
Noida’s Joint Commissioner of Police, while speaking about the bomb threat at the Noida mall said, “In view of the upcoming festivals, continuous checking of malls/crowded places is being done at various places in Gautam Budh Nagar. After receiving the information about the email, the mall has been thoroughly checked from the security point of view. Prima facie, it appears to be a hoax mail.”
(with PTI inputs)
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