India, Sept. 16 -- Multiple schools in the city received bomb threats via emails on Tuesday morning, prompting the Delhi Police, Delhi Fire Services and bomb disposal squads to launch search operations, police said.

Police said they received calls from schools in the New Delhi district around 10.30am.

Teams of the Delhi Police, bomb detection and disposal squads, dog squads and the Delhi Fire Services reached the schools, the premises were evacuated as a precaution and thorough anti-sabotage checks were carried out.

Police said nothing suspicious was found during searches and the email was declared hoax by noon.

Senior police officers said the bomb threats were received at the British School, Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Air Force Bal Bhar...