Primary school EVACUATED &  crying kids picked up by ‘shaking’ parents after child brought explosive into show and tell

A PRIMARY schoolhouse was evacuated with parents rushing to cod their shaken children aft 1 youngster brought an explosive into amusement and tell.

Cops were called retired to the schoolhouse successful Hampshire with a disposal squad sent successful to extract the "historic incendiary device".

Police arrived astir 1.30pm to Orchard Junior School successful Dibden Purlieu, a colony adjacent the New Forest.

School mum Laura Holloway received a substance saying "Schools are being closed & evacuated - delight cod your kid from Noadswood tract ASAP."

She told The Daily Echo: "It was truthful worrying", and described "shaking" during the nerve-wracking thrust to prime up her child.

Laura added: "Another genitor had called saying determination were constabulary everywhere. I knew my youngest would person been truthful scared.

"Both schools seemed to woody with it each precise good and had the kids lined up and checked disconnected - it indispensable person been precise upsetting for everyone involved."

Kerri Watt, 40, who lives adjacent said friends with kids astatine the schoolhouse visited her aft the evacuation and said pupils were "crying and truthful scared".

She said: "It’s not the accustomed occurrence drill, not similar taking your clip to get to the door; it was a spot of an existent panic to get retired of the building."

Kerri told however parents were told to travel aboriginal and prime up their kids from the adjacent secondary schoolhouse - Noadswood.

"It was each rather rushed," she said.

"A batch of the older children locomotion location by themselves, but they were told that they weren’t allowed to contiguous aft this, truthful that caused occupation for a batch of parents who weren’t acceptable for that."

A school spokesperson said successful a statement: "The constabulary attended the schoolhouse contiguous aft a imaginable unexploded ordnance was brought into schoolhouse for the purposes of amusement and tell.

"All indispensable processes were followed by the schoolhouse successful narration to this matter, and the information of each pupils and unit was maintained throughout.

"The instrumentality has since been removed from the schoolhouse site."

They described it arsenic a "historic incendiary device" successful an email sent retired to parents.

It thanked the "the children, unit and families for their speedy effect this day with our evacuation of the school".

A constabulary statement read: "We were called astatine astir 1.30pm to a study that a kid had brought what whitethorn person been a perchance unexploded ordnance to Orchard Junior School.

"The schoolhouse was calmly evacuated and a disposal squad attended to instrumentality the point distant to beryllium destroyed arsenic a precaution."