India, Feb. 20 -- At least 18 schools in Noida received bomb threat emails on Thursday during board examination, police said, adding that prima facie the mails were found to be a hoax and nothing suspicious was found.

As the school managements checked the threat mail on their official email IDs, they alerted the police, prompting multiple teams from the bomb squad, dog squad, and anti-sabotage check (ASC) team, accompanied by senior police officials rushed to the schools.

"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," said Rajeev Narayan Mishra, additional commissioner o...