UK internet user 'stopped school massacre' as teen arrested with bag of knives

A tip-off from an internet user in the UK led to the arrest of a 15-year-old boy who claimed to be planning to livestream a massacre at a school in Ukraine. The member of the public alerted police after seeing a post in which a person could be seen holding a knife and saying that they would carry out the attack.

Counter-terrorism officers alerted Europol, who contacted authorities in Ukraine where the suspect was arrested on Friday. He was found to have a rucksack containing knives.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs said he was detained going into a school in the Zakarpattia region, and was livestreaming at the time. Commander Dominic Murphy, from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command said: “This wa

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