SYDNEY: Two 16-year-old boys were Thursday charged with terror-related offences in Australia, including planning an attack, after being arrested with “bayonet-type” knives in Sydney.
The pair, who were not named, were seized in the city’s southwest on Wednesday after buying the weapons in a shop.
They face life imprisonment after being charged with “acts done in preparation, or planning, terrorist acts”, and membership of a terror organization.
“We don’t have any specific information of a particular target where we will allege that there was going to be an imminent attack,” said New South Wales Police Commissioner Catherine Burn.
“What we do know, though, is that the actions, we will allege, were enough to say they were preparing to do an attack although we don’t know specifically where that attack was going to take place.”
