Primary school locked down after ‘knifeman’ attempted to ‘attack parent on the playground’
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A 20-year-old man has been arrested after he was said to have tried to attack another parent in the playground of a primary school. Children at Lilly Lane Primary School in Manchester were told to stay inside the building after the incident at around 3pm yesterday afternoon.
A man, reportedly armed with a knife tried to attack another parent, witnesses told the Manchester Evening News. The suspect attempted to attack a parent during an altercation before producing a knife in the incident at the school on Kenyon Lane in the Moston area.
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Police later said no injuries were reported. Pictures and videos showed police vehicles arriving with blue lights on, and scores of parents waiting outside the locked school gates. One mum, who said her daughter was locked indoors for 45 minutes, said: ‘My partner had gone to pick my daughter up from school and he was gone for ages.
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‘He came back saying they wouldn’t let her or the students out and that the police were there.’. ‘I got there and there were armed police and everything. ‘The gates were locked, the school was on lockdown and they weren’t letting anyone in or out.’.
‘There were hundreds of parents all waiting outside and we were all locked out. ‘I was panicking and asking what was going on, and that I wanted my daughter. ‘I was screaming that my child was locked in, and they just kept telling us all the children were safe.’.
