
T.N. Secretariat, three other places receive hoax bomb threat
The Hindu
Anonymous bomb threats sent to Secretariat, Officers' Training Academy, and private schools in Chennai deemed hoaxes by police.
Anonymous persons have sent e-mails threatening to detonate bombs at the Secretariat, Officers’ Training Academy, and two private schools. The police said a private school, which had already received bomb threats eight times, got another one on Monday evening. The school immediately alerted the police. Similar threats were sent to the Secretariat, Officers’ Training Academy, and a private school in Madipakkam. After a search operation, the threats were deemed to be hoaxes. Efforts are on to trace the senders, the police said.
The Cyber Crime Wing police is already investigating a series of similar threat mails sent to the city schools.

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