The clown trend has also spread to Australia, where police warned about people “parading in the public wearing clown masks”.
Police in Northumbria have been on high visibility patrol in Newcastle in response to the clown sightings.
The pupils were left distressed but unhurt by the clown, who was wearing grey tracksuit bottoms, red shoes and a multicoloured top.
It has been three decades since Stephen King unleashed Pennywise, his malevolent clown character in the novel It.
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