SYDNEY: Australian police have charged a teenager over a “truly chilling and disturbing” planned attack on an Anzac Day service, as people across the nation and in New Zealand honoured their war dead.
Reports said the 16-year-old had tried to get hold of a gun over the weekend and was believed to be planning to target the solemn ceremonies yesterday that mark the anniversary of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign during World War I, in which thousands died.
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