Classrooms evacuated as at least five schools in Sydney and southern NSW go into lockdown after ‘bomb threats’ received

Several schools are in lockdown across New South Wales after ‘threats’
Police operations are underway at several schools, police confirmed
Footage showed students massing on fields at Penrith High

Multiple schools have been evacuated and classrooms placed into lockdown across New South Wales and Victoria after threats were made.

Police have confirmed operations are underway at ‘numerous’ schools across the state in the Sydney metropolitan and southern regions.

And on Friday afternoon Victorian police announced several schools in the southern state had also received ‘a threatening phone call’ and were being evacuated as a precaution.

Threats made: Parents are pictured collecting their children at St Monica’s primary school in Richmond, western Sydney

Helicopter footage showed students massing on fields at Penrith High School in Sydney’s west

Threats were reportedly made to schools in Woolooware and Ulladulla, south of Sydney, Richmond and Penrith in the city’s west and Mona Vale on the northern beaches

Up in Sydney, Seven News reported threats were made to schools in Woolooware and Ulladulla, south of Sydney, Richmond and Penrith in the city’s west and Mona Vale on the northern beaches.

Helicopter footage showed students massing on fields at Penrith High School. A parent of a student at Woolooware High School told Radio 2GB students had been evacuated.

2GB said the schools had received ‘bomb threats’ or ‘bomb hoaxes’.

In a statement, NSW Police warned making threats was a serious criminal offence.

‘Every effort will be made to identify the person or persons responsible,’ police said.

NSW police confirmed there were operations underway at various sites across the state

Students march to the oval at Penrith High School after threats were made at the school

A police car was spotted outside St Monica’s primary school in Parramatta

The Education Department said each school is taking ‘precautionary measures to ensure the safety of its students’.

A spokesman stressed: ‘No students are in danger. Police are attending at each location also as a precaution.’

He said concerned parents can contact their child’s school.

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