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Austrian, 19, arrested alongside 17-year-old for allegedly planning Islamist attack at Vienna venue

Austria’s general director for public security, Franz Ruf, said chemical substances had been found in a search of the home of the 19-year-old, who had pledged his allegiance to the radical jihadist Islamic State group “in recent weeks” and posted it on the online messaging app Telegram in early July. Ruf said evidence of “concrete preparatory actions” for a possible attack had been found in the home of the 19-year-old in the town of Ternitz near the Hungarian border, including chemical substances and “technical contraptions”. “The situation surrounding the apparently planned terror attack in Vienna was very serious,” he wrote, adding that thanks to intensive cooperation between police, Austrian and foreign intelligence, “the threat could be recognised early on, tackled and a tragedy prevented”.

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