Ludhiana, April 24 -- Five private schools in Ludhiana were thrown into alarm on Thursday after receiving bomb threat emails warning of explosions on school campuses and railway tracks, prompting urgent security measures across the city before authorities later confirmed the alert to be a hoax.

According to police, the email-received on official school accounts at around 9.14 am-warned of blasts at educational institutions at 1.11 am and threatened disruption of railway operations on Thursday. It also cautioned parents against sending children to schools and advised the public to avoid train travel ahead of the scheduled blackout mock drill in Punjab on Friday.

According to police, the emails were received from-kopammojuvsccx@gmail.com ...