Noida, Feb. 19 -- At least 18 Noida schools in received bomb threat emails on Thursday during board examinations, police said, adding that the messages were found to be a hoax.

The school management alerted the police after receiving the threat emails on their official email IDs.

Multiple teams from the bomb squad, dog squad, and anti-sabotage check (ASC) team, accompanied by senior police officers, carried out search operations within the school premises.

"Multiple schools received bomb threat mails in Gautam Budh Nagar on Thursday. Following the information about the threat emails, multiple teams were dispatched and extensive searches in all schools were conducted," Gautam Budh Nagar's additional commissioner of police (Law and Order...