BBC News - Highcliffe School In Lockdown After Shots Fired

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Link: BBC News - Highcliffe School in lockdown after shots fired

 

Despite the headline reading the report:

 

A school was placed in emergency lockdown after reports a gunman fired shots at school workmen, police said.

 

Armed police were called to Highcliffe School in Christchurch shortly after midday.

 

The school was placed in emergency lock down, but has since reopened.

 

A 26-year-old man from Christchurch is being held on suspicion of firearm offences and a number of air pellets were found. Police said there was no risk to the school pupils or staff.

 

No-one was injured.

 

It reads as if the incident is over.

 

@witch: You are in Dorset I believe. Was this anywhere near you? Is everyone OK?

 

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[Edu-IT]

Scary stuff!

 

Edit: Looks like the media hyped it up. http://station1.highcliffe.dorset.sch.uk/intra/default.asp?id=2849

Edited December 18, 2014 by Edu-IT

[witch]

Guy outside school with an air rifle that went off and accidentally nearly hit the caretaker according to the parent of a child there that mrwITch knows

So not really that scary.

When this sort of thing happens and you see what the media make of it you wonder what else is exagerated in the articles you are reading

[CAM]

Pretty much everything is. Over this latter half of the year I have learned not to trust a thing they say. Welcome to the world of clickbait, sensationalism and over-reactions called modern day journalism.