CHENNAI: About 30 e-mail bomb threats have been received in Chennai in the last one month, including the one targeting PTI office here on Friday and all of them have turned out to be hoax, police said.

The bomb threat to the office of the country's premier news agency located at Kodambakkam was sent through email and currently investigation was underway to trace the sender, a senior police official said.

Initially a police team arrived at the PTI office and evacuated the staff present there. Later a police sniffer dog squad and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) conducted a thorough check in the premises and nothing suspicious was found, police said.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the sender had issued the threat through a fake email ID, to the DGP office, the official s

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