Bomb threats sent to 40 New Delhi schools

Some 40 schools in the Indian capital of New Delhi received bomb threats via e-mail, officials confirmed on Monday.

The sender wrote that they "planted multiple bombs" and demanded $30,000 to not go through with the plot.According to school officials, the threatening e-mail was sent en masse from a Gmail account on Sunday, when the schools were all closed.

Delhi police, bomb disposal squads, and the fire department were actively searching at each location, though no evidence of explosives had been found at any of the schools by Monday afternoon.