NSW:Madeleine's school halts HSC/gives counsel

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2011
NSW:Madeleine's school halts HSC/gives counsel

Sydney's exclusive Wenona girls school has postponed trial HSC exams and offered counselling
to students after a hoax bomb was strapped to a student's neck yesterday.

Principal Dr BRIONY SCOTT has advised students not to speak to media and to stay clear
of social networking sites.

In a statement posted on the school's website, Dr SCOTT says the Year 12 Trial HSC
exams scheduled for today and tomorrow have been postponed.

18-year-old MADELEINE PULVER'S 10-hour ordeal began around 2.30pm when police were
told a masked man had broken into her Mosman home, on Sydney's lower north shore and a
fake bomb attached to her neck.

Detectives are still waiting to formally interview the teenager.

Meanwhile, officers from the Public Order and Riot Squad are conducting a line-search
of the lower end of Burrawong Avenue and nearby streets remain cordoned off.

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KEYWORD: BOMB SCHOOL (SYDNEY)

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