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School evacuated over potentially explosive device

Charlotte Andrews
BBC News
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Police said the school was evacuated on Friday

A school was evacuated following a report that a child had brought in a potentially explosive device, according to police.

Officers from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary were called to Orchard Junior School in Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire, at about 13:30 GMT on Friday.

The force said the child had brought in "what may have been a potentially unexploded ordnance".

The school was "calmly evacuated" and a disposal team took the item away to be destroyed as a precaution, it said.

The BBC has contacted the school for comment.

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