Lucknow:The bomb threat mails sent to schools in Lucknow on May 13, were the handiwork of a group of minor school children who 'accidentally' forwarded the mails during a chatting session, officials said.
The Lucknow police and the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) wings of the Uttar Pradesh Police have worked out the case. Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Zone), Tej Swaroop Singh, said, "Chatting during an online gaming session by a group of children aged between 10-11 years went awry when a message of a bomb attack was wrongly forwarded to a private school's email ID in Lucknow."
He said, "Interestingly, the children were all from different states, including Maharashtra, and are not interlinked to each other. The children are innocent and their identity is being kept secret. These children are not related to the similar bomb threats received at Kanpur and Delhi schools."