The Sun Newspaper Online: Tears over Laden 'blitz'

PUPILS fled in tears when teachers told them Osama Bin Laden had nuked Britain.

The teenagers were warned the end of the world was minutes away.

And they were even urged to ring home to say goodbye. But the attack was INVENTED by drama staff to get them to act out how they would behave on doomsday.

Families of the 15 and 16-year-olds have now had an apology fromthe school.

But one parent said: "I cannot believe teachers could be so unbelievably stupid. I am utterly disgusted."

Panic broke out when a teacher dashed in to a class at Peterborough’s Bushfield Community College with a whispered message.

Staff feigned tears and told pupils bin Laden had escaped from the Afghan dragnet and fired off a nuclear bomb.

Many youngsters began sobbing -- and some tried to ring their parents on mobiles.

Peterborough City Council admitted the attack story was "probably" out of order. An official said: "The students were informed anything that occured in the lesson would be fictitious.

"It is extremely regrettable the exercise was taken out of context by a few of pupils.

"But in hindsight it was probably a mistake to chose such a scenario."

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