Bomb scare at Melbourne primary school
A Jewish primary school in Melbourne's inner south-east went into lockdown following a bomb scare this morning.
The Victoria Police bomb response unit was called to the King David School in Orrong Road, Armadale, at around 8.40am, after reports a suspicious vehicle was parked outside.
The school was given the all-clear by police just before 11:00am (AEST).
Police used two robots to examine the empty vehicle, and later confirmed it belonged to a tradesman working nearby.
The suspect boxes inside the vehicle contained the man's tools.
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
Staff and pupils were moved to another campus as a safety precaution.
Stawell St Armadale where a sus car has parked outside a Jewish primary school. Bomb Squad here #7news pic.twitter.com/LHnvGHXvNK
— Laurel Irving (@laurelirving7) August 21, 2014
Principal Marc Light told reporters: "As part of our routine morning security check our security guards noticed a suspicious vehicle parked adjacent to one of our campuses and called the police."
"The police came on site and advised that it would be the best precaution to move the students to another of our campuses nearby, which we've done."
Bomb scare at Sydney school
Meanwhile, police evacuated a Catholic girl's school, south of Sydney, this morning following reports of another 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.
A schoolgirl, believed to have been caught up in the ordeal, reportedly sent a text message to her father when armed police stormed her classroom.
"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.
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