Bomb threats across UK schools on GCSE exam day as caller vows to 'behead and shoot children'

t least 27 schools across the country have been plunged into chaos during GCSE exams amid a series of bomb threats.

Note: this story is from 2016. A reader has shared it to Facebook in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing. Follow the latest on that story here. Exam boards have given permission for schools to rearrange GCSE and A-Level exams if pupils have been affected by the attack.

Thousands of pupils were evacuated in schools from Kent all the way up to Newcastle after a series of anonymous phone calls.

At one school, "repeated" calls warned of a bomb on site and that "the shrapnel will take children's heads off".

One teacher told Mirror Online that the caller had threatened to shoot pupils and detonate a bomb.

Another school official added that the message was pre-recorded and featured an American voice which looped three times over a minute and a half.
The caller told a receptionist that "if the school called the police the bomb would be detonated immediately".

Police have been forced to close primaries and secondaries while responding to the threats which have left parents panicked and confused.

It was initially thought that the calls were isolated to a small number of schools in Kent but reports have emerged of disruption across the country.
Bomb threats were made at the following schools:

Canterbury Academy, Kent
Barming Primary School, Maidstone
Voyager Academy, Peterborough
Discover Primary School, Peterborough
Wootton Upper School, Bedfordshire
Redwood School, Rochdale
Neighbouring Oulder Hill School, Rochdale was also evacuated
Emsworth Primary School, Hampshire
Kingsham Primary School, Chichester
Whiteley Primary School, Fareham
Rosebrook Primary School, Stockton
Cranmere Primary School, Surrey
Mayfield Primary School, Cambridge
Blacon High School, Cheshire
Crabtree Farm Primary School, Nottingham
Lindisfarne Middle School, Northumberland
Charville Primary School, Middlesex

Dafen Community Primary School, Llanelli

Pinhoe Primary School, Essex

Maldon Primary School, Essex

Barnwell School, Stevenage

Charlestown Primary School, Cornwall

Middleton Primary School, Leeds

Ringmer Primary School, East Sussex

Caversham Primary School, Reading

Devonport High School for Girls, Plymouth

Down Hall Primary School, Rayleigh, Essex
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