Singapore detains 16-year-old for allegedly planning terrorist attacks on two mosques

The youth bought a tactical vest from an online platform and had found his choice machete on Carousell but had not purchased it yet. - Internal Security Department/The Straits Times

SINGAPORE (ANN): A 16-year-old Singaporean student has been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for planning to attack two mosques and kill worshippers in Singapore on March 15 this year - the second anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks.

A Protestant Christian of Indian ethnicity, he is the first detainee to be inspired by far-right extremist ideology and the youngest person detained under the ISA for terrorism-related activities to date, said the Internal Security Department (ISD) on Wednesday (Jan 27).