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While his peers were focusing on studies or video games, a 16-year-old Singaporean boy was planning bloody murder.
Influenced by Brenton Tarrant, a white supremacist who slaughtered 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand in 2019, the secondary school student had planned copycat attacks here on March 15, the second anniversary of the Christchurch massacre.
His original weapon of choice was an assault rifle similar to the one used by Tarrant, but when he realised the difficulty of acquiring a gun in Singapore, he settled on a machete from online platform Carousell.
Before he could buy the machete, the youth was detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) last month after the authorities uncovered his plans.
Wednesday, 27 Jan 2021 05:19 PM MYT
The secondary school student had hatched a plan to attack the Assyafaah Mosque (left) along Admiralty Lane and Yusof Ishak Mosque in Woodlands, the Internal Security Department said. TODAY pic
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SINGAPORE, Jan 27 A 16-year-old Singaporean boy was detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in December last year after he was found to have made “detailed plans” and preparations to conduct terrorist attacks against Muslims at two mosques here with a machete.
The secondary school student, the youngest person to be detained under the ISA for terrorism-related activities, had hatched a plan to attack the Assyafaah Mosque along Admiralty Lane and Yusof Ishak Mosque in Woodlands, the Internal Security Department (ISD) said today.
Indian-origin teenager detained in Singapore for planning attack on 2 mosques India Today Web Desk
Singaporean authorities last month detained a 16-year-old boy of Indian descent for planning to attack two mosques in March, on the anniversary of New Zealand s Christchurch attacks.
The teenager, a Protestant Christian, was planning to use a machete to attack Muslims at the two mosques. He was detained by the authorities under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
Singapore s Internal Security Department (ISD) on Wednesday said that the accused is the youngest person to be dealt with under the ISA for terrorism-related activities.
He is the first detainee in the city-state to be inspired by far-right extremist ideology, the local reported, citing the ISD release.