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Screengrab from a PTI video showing scenes after threat was received.
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Jaipur: Several hospitals across Rajasthan including five here received email bomb threats on Sunday which turned out to be a hoax, police said.
Bomb disposal squad cordoned off the hospitals to check their premises but nothing suspicious was found.
The emails had claimed that bombs had been planted under hospital beds and in bathrooms, police said.
Among the city hospitals which received threats mails are Monilek Hospital, C.K Birla Hospital, Manas Hospital, Apex Hospital and Rungta Hospital.
The police had not yet confirmed the exact number of the hospitals, across the state, that have received the hoax emails. But they said that five hospital in Jaipur reported to have received the threat mails.
"Bomb disposal squads were dispatched to the locations. During the searches, nothing suspicious was found," Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Kunwar Rashtradeep said.
Police said that the IP address of the email sender is being traced with the help of cyber experts.
The email sent to the hospitals read, "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."
"You will end up in a pool of blood. You all deserve nothing but death. The terrorists 'Ching and Cultist' are behind this MASSACRE," it added.
On Saturday, two malls in the National Capital Region received email bomb threats, which later turned out to be hoax.
On May 1 this year, panic gripped multiple schools in Delhi NCR, including Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, and Faridabad, after they received emails about bombs being planted on their campuses. The threat, which had thrown police and security personnel into a tizzy, turned out to be a hoax.