PARENTS have been warned to be on their guard after men tried to pull two nine-year-old girls into a car in separate incidents near Worsthorne school.
In the first, the primary pupil hit out at the man and ran away.
He had grabbed her arm after jumping out of the passenger side of a blue car parked about 200 yards from the main school entrance.
A second similar incident happened minutes later as pupils were making their way home from school.
Both girls say there were five men in the vehicle which could have been a Vauxhall Astra.
The first girl said she was approached by a 'scruffy' man in his 20s, wearing a jumper and torn jeans.
The second was described as a skinhead with tattoos, say police.
Letters have been sent to all parents by the school.
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