DHAKA: Dozens of Jewish children have been traumatized by a gang of teenagers who stormed a Sydney school bus and allegedly hurled racial abuse and threats.

New South Wales state police said five juveniles were arrested early Thursday over the incident on Wednesday afternoon. 

However, no one was injured, reports the NDTV.

They were questioned at a police station but were later released without charge into the custody of their parents pending further investigations.

The bus carrying about 30 children aged 5 to 12 years from three Jewish schools were subjected to ‘physical and racial threats’ by a group of eight male teenagers, aged 15 to 17, who boarded at a bus stop in the wealthy eastern suburb of Randwick, police added.

Jackie Blackburn said her eldest daughter had phoned her from the bus pleading for help, saying, “There are eight very dangerous, drunk men on this bus.”

The daughter’s phone when dead, but Blackburn said she was soon phoned by her daughter’s friend from the same bus.

“They’re threatening to slit our throats, they’re chanting ‘Palestine’ and they’re going crazy about Palestine – ‘must kill the Jews’ and ‘heil Hitler’,” Blackburn said.

She said the teens kicked the bus door and windows as they left the bus.

State Communities Minister Victor Dominello condemned the attack and said “Public abuse and intimidation on the grounds of race or religion is deplorable.”

BDST: 1035 HRS, AUG 7, 2014