Gun scare at school

The discovery of a pile of empty .22 calibre shell casings sparked an armed police callout to an Albany primary school yesterday.

Pupils told a Pinehurst School staff member they had seen a gun-toting person in camouflage but she dismissed the information until discovering the pile of used shells in the school grounds.

Armed police were dispatched and after an hour the mystery was solved.

A 12-year-old boy, who had collected the shells from a relative's farm, had decided to empty his pockets in the middle of the school while playing with his toy gun.