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French plod in flack jackets rushed to the scene after parents in Britain dialled 999, the Daily Mirror reports.
Head teacher at the girls' school, King Edmund School in Rochford, Essex, Graham Abel, told the paper the girls thought "It was just a good game."
He said he spoke to the "young ladies" and said he "wasn't very happy" with what their antics.
The girls seem to have become concerned over French boy firing a ball-bearing gun outside the hostel in Boulogne where they were staying.
A number of them sent text messges to their parents claiming they were under siege by masked gunmen and that one girl had been shot. µ
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