School bomb threat hoax: Panicked parents tell of 'race' to school to pick up kids after hoax at 400 schools

Horrified parents have told how they dashed to pick up their kids after hundreds of schools were evacuated due to a mass bomb threat.

Mums and dads spoke out against the "absolutely disgusting" hoax saying they were "racing" to the school gates to pick up youngsters any way they could.

One woman wrote on Twitter: "My daughters school has been evacuated because of a bomb threat and I’m still miles away in an Uber racing to get her home safely.

"Please don’t **** with other people’s kids. There’s so much wrong with this world," she added.

She later added that her child was safe and now thankfully had "a chocolate milkshake and no clue what has almost happened".

An anxious father wrote on Twitter that the two schools his children attend had dealt "professionally" with the crisis but called the experience "horrific".