A bomb threat in the temple town of Tirupati sparked panic when a staff member at the ISKCON temple reported receiving a menacing email that claimed ISIS terrorists were planning to blow up the temple. In response, local police carried out extensive searches at the ISKCON Temple, employing bomb squads and canine units, but found no explosives.

This marks the fourth hoax email the city has received in the past three days.

Continuing threats! 

Two hotels and a temple in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati received fresh bomb threats in the name of terrorist groups on Sunday but all of them turned out to be a hoax, police said. 

Two hotels and the Varadaraja temple in the town received emails stating that bombs were planted on their premises. After the management of the hotels and the temple informed the police, the law enforcement agencies with the help of sniffer dogs and bomb disposal squads searched the premises but found no explosives.

The threatening emails were received in the name of DMK leader Jaffer Sadiq and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

The management of two hotels had received an email on Saturday, stating that bombs were planted in the hotels. Police with the help of a dog squad thoroughly searched the premises but found nothing suspicious. Two more hotels received the emails on Sunday. For the first time, a temple in the town also received a bomb threat. After a thorough search, the threat proved a hoax.

Police officials have informed the public that there was no need for any panic.