A 17-year-old Syrian has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting a suicide attack in Berlin, the BBC reports.
The suspect was arrested in Uckermark, which is approximately 100km north of Berlin and in the state of Brandenburg.
Karl-Heinz Shröter, the state's interior minister, announced the arrest on Tuesday.
Shröter said that the suspect had clearly written about a planned attack in an electronic message to his mother, according to local news agency DW.
Police said on Twitter that the suspect entered Germany in 2015 and sought asylum. He has been living in a home for unaccompanied refugees since 2016 and was not on the radar of the German authorities. The home he was living in is currently being searched by the state criminal investigation office.
The specifics of the alleged plot have not yet been revealed.
It comes just a week after the suicide bombing at Manchester Arena by Salman Abedi. The terror attack killed 22 and left 116 needing hospital treatment.
This is a developing story...
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