India, Dec. 11 -- New Delhi

Panic gripped multiple schools across the national capital on Wednesday as they received bomb threats on email around 10am, threatening blasts around noon. One school in Gurugram also received a bomb threat, but it was unclear whether they were related. All threats were later declared hoaxes after checks by police.

In Delhi, Modern School, Delhi Public School in RK Puram, Sanskriti School, Lovely Public School, and Ahlcon International School, and Indian School, among others, were subject to the threat. In Gurugram, Shri Ram Senior Secondary School in DLF Phase-3 received the threat.

Police said that the sender of the threat email has not yet been identified.

The email, sent from an email ID "wasung@atomicm...