Mohali, Feb. 18 -- Over 16 Mohali schools and the Fortis Hospital, where Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann was admitted for exhaustion, received bomb threat emails on Tuesday morning, in what was the fifth such hoax alert in about a month.

Since January 28, the tricity has received hoax mails almost every week, with Mohali receiving the threats for the second consecutive week. On January 28, the threats had been sent out to schools in Chandigarh, followed by the secretariat buildings in the city the next day. The subsequent week, the district court complex in Chandigarh received a threat. This was followed by a threat to several schools in Mohali. But in all cases, the emails turned out to be a hoax.

Mohali superintendent of police (S...