In Australia, the terrorists planned to shoot down the plane
Australian authorities have arrested 4 people on Saturday, disrupting the terrorist plot, which was planned to shoot down the plane, said the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Police said that it was an Islamist plot, but they did not associate this plan with a specific terrorist group. Officers learned that the people in Sydney, allegedly planned to carry out a terrorist attack using a "makeshift device", - said the Commissioner of the Australian Federal police Andrew Colvin. Turnbull described it as a complex conspiracy that included the attack on the plane.
The suspects have been surrounded in four raids in the suburbs of Sydney, Federal police and new South Wales police, said in a press release. They are in custody but was not charged, said Colvin. Police did not specify the date or location of threats to the aviation industry of Australia. A house in the suburbs, Surry hills, where one of the suspects was arrested, remained cordoned off on Sunday and two police officers patrolling the streets. Several police officers were parked in a nearby alley, and the investigators seemed to have studied the property.
Neighbors told that the family with three children lived in the house. They said the family was friendly enough, although they did not know them well. Police said that searches were also conducted in the suburbs of Sydney in Lakemba, Park Whaley and Punchbowl. The Prime Minister said Thursday at the airport in Sydney there are additional security measures, and since they were commissioned in other major airports.
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