Lucknow: At least 10 major hotels in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, received bomb threats via emails on Sunday. Most of the hotels were premium hotels. The email threatened that the explosion would take place if the ransom demand of $55,000 (Rs 46,24,288) is not met.
“Bombs are hidden in black bags on the grounds of your hotel. I want $55,000, or I will detonate the explosives and blood will spread everywhere. Any attempt at defusing the bombs will detonate them,” reads the bomb threat email.
Below is the copy of the email sent to the hotels
The hotels which received bomb threats are Saraca, Marriott, Piccadily, Comfort Vista, Clark Awadh, Silvette, Lemon Tree, Casa, Dayal Gateway, and Fortune.
After receiving the threat, hotel management informed the police, prompting swift investigations by local authorities.
This came two days after three hotels in the temple area of Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati district received bomb threats. The email said that “international pressure” had mounted due to the arrest of Jaffer Sadiq and that “such blats (sic) in schools are necessary to divert the attention away from MK Stalin family’s involvement in the case.”
Last month, the Taj West End Hotel in Bengaluru also received a bomb threat email. It led to the authorities bringing in the sniffer dogs and the bomb squad for inspection. However, after conduction the probe, a senior police officer said that the bomb threat was a hoax.
