'I'm going to bomb the school'

Menacing phone call prompts decision to evacuate the building Incident comes just days after lockdown due to knife reports

- BY STEPHEN TOPPING

A PRIMARY school was evacuated following a menacing phone call warning of a 'bomb'.

Bowlee Park Community School, in Middleton, was evacuated on Tuesday afternoon (June 24) before police attended the building.

It followed a number of 'rude' phone calls made to the school, which ended with a threat by the person on the other end of the line.

According to the school, the person on the phone told the call handler: "I'm going to bomb the school."

Staff liaised with Greater Manchester Police before evacuating the building at around 3.30pm, with parents asked to pick their children up at the end of the school day. The incident is now believed to have been a hoax, and the school reopened as normal on Wednesday morning.