India, July 23 -- Three private schools in Shimla received bomb threat emails on Wednesday morning, triggering panic among students and their parents, police said. The threats later turned out to be hoaxes.

After receiving information about the threats, police teams rushed to Edward School, Sacred Heart School, Dhalli, and Saraswati Paradise School, Sanjauli, in Shimla with bomb squads.

As the news broke, frantic parents called up the school authorities to enquire about the safety of their children and rushed to pick them up.

The students were promptly escorted out and a thorough search of the campuses was conducted.

However, no suspicious object was found, a police official said.

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