COUNTY NEWS: School pupils were on trip to Paris when terrorists attacked

Pupils at a Sussex school were in Paris when a series of terror attacks hit the French capital last night (Friday, November 13).
By The Newsroom
Published 14th Nov 2015, 20:29 BST
Two women embrace outside the Le Carillon bar after laying flowers in tribute to those killed. SUS-151114-133204001Two women embrace outside the Le Carillon bar after laying flowers in tribute to those killed. SUS-151114-133204001
Two women embrace outside the Le Carillon bar after laying flowers in tribute to those killed. SUS-151114-133204001

Students and staff from Lavant House School, near Chichester, left at 7am on Friday morning for the three-day trip. Later that day, gunmen and suicide bombers killed at least 128 people in the city.

The sister of a teacher on the trip took to Twitter to say everybody from the school was safe and well.

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They are due to return to the UK at 10:30pm tomorrow night (Sunday, November 15).

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