A teen from Thunder Bay, Ont., is facing serious charges after police allege he conspired online to carry out a potential violent school attack , with help from someone believed to be in another country.

The investigation, which involved the FBI , Interpol and the RCMP, began on Oct. 6 after the Thunder Bay Police Service hate crimes unit received information about a potential online threat targeting the public in Thunder Bay and abroad.

Police allege the 13-year-old boy had been communicating with an individual in another country, and that the two were “counselling and conspiring.”

Investigators allege that the two were going “to commit an attack, which may have been carried out in the near future.”

Authorities executed two search warrants at two local addresses on Oct. 14.

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