'Cops with guns, so scared': Schoolgirl's text amid bomb scare
A schoolgirl's text to her father details how frightened she was when armed police stormed into her classroom during a bomb scare.
7News understands around 1100 students were evacuated from St Mary's Star of the Sea College on Harbour Street in Wollongong this morning.
Police searched the grounds of the Catholic girl's school south of Sydney following reports a suspicious package had been found.
One student's text to her father reads: "police just ran into my class and were like girls get out now and my whole school got evacuated and there are police with guns everything, so scared," according to The Illawarra Mercury.
Parents reportedly received a text from the school saying the area had been put into lockdown.
Harbour Street between Crown and Hinton Street had shut off, but were reopened just after 11am.
Bomb scare at Melbourne primary school
Meanwhile, bomb squad detectives were called to another bomb scare at a primary school in Melbourne.
UPDATE: re King David school- a tradie had left his ute with tools outside. Security guards thought it was sus. #7news
— Laurel Irving (@laurelirving7) August 21, 2014
The bomb squad robot has left the car of concern outside King David school. Just given the all clear. #7news pic.twitter.com/rwlGrF7YeC
— Laurel Irving (@laurelirving7) August 21, 2014
Authorities were called to King David School in Orrong Road, Armadale, at around 8.40am this morning, after reports of a suspicious vehicle was parked outside.
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