Missing bomb plot teen arrested in Vienna

From the Austrian edition of The Local

A 14-year-old boy who plotted to bomb a crowded rail station and had been missing since Tuesday was arrested in Vienna on Friday morning, a spokeswoman for the St. Pölten prosecutor has confirmed.

Merkan G. is now in police custody but police said they have no reason to detain the 12-year-old, who will be returned to his parents. There is no evidence that the younger boy had any connection with terrorist activities. The boys were arrested at around 7am in a fast food restaurant in Vienna’s Mariahilf shopping district by a Vienna police unit.