RAWALPINDI: The recovery of the casing of a bullet from a girls’ school on Babu Lal Hussain Road created panic on Wednesday.

The bullet casing was spotted by the private security guard deployed at the school who immediately informed the school headmistress. The headmistress told local police that her school had been under fire.

The emergency call made by the headmistress sparked a security alert and a police team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Sardar Babar rushed to the spot.

The police team seized the bullet casing and declared that the bullet had been fired by someone in the neighborhood and its casing had landed in the school premises. They said that the school had not been targeted.

While there is a ban on firing in the air, the police are yet to achieve success in its implementation. Ratta Amral Inspector Altaf Gohar said the alert turned out to be a false alarm as nobody had fired at the school.

Published in Dawn February 12th , 2015

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