Worried mothers who heard about the shooting and feared their children might have been in the area were phoning the hospital, she added.

Her mother phoned the hospital at 7.15pm last night in response to press appeals and arrived there soon after.

Martin's mother phoned the Foreign Office for more details, but the information turned out to be false.

Louisa's mother phoned me this morning and gave me the whole story.

His mother had phoned yesterday before he left for work.

His mother phoned him several times and Jack had a disturbed night's sleep.

The next morning his mother phoned him from her motel.

The mother phoned the school, contacted her daughter's friends, even visited the campus, but she never discovered where Jennifer had gone.

One dark and stormy night I was working late when my mother phoned asking for me.

The mother of a 17-year-old boy had phoned because his girlfriend was pregnant.