TEACHERS and pupils were in a state of shock today after a staffroom was petrol-bombed in the third suspicious blaze at a Blackburn school in less than a week.
And the head of St Michael with St John Primary, near Whalley Range, said he feared the latest attack might have been connected with the tension over the Gulf War.
Police had stepped up patrols at the town's schools since the attacks.
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