A 16-year-old boy has been charged with terrorism offenses following the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and another priest at an Assyrian church in Sydney. The incident, which occurred on Monday, involved the teenager allegedly committing a religiously-motivated terrorist offense by attacking two clerics. In a related development, Australian police have arrested seven other teenagers suspected of having extremist ideologies linked to this case.
⚠️ AUSTRALIAN COUNTER TERRORISM FORCE ARRESTS SEVEN TEENAGERS AFTER SYDNEY BISHOP STABBING Full Story → https://t.co/6bobLrFdAS An Australian counter terrorism team arrested seven teenagers on Wednesday linked to a boy charged with a religiously-motivated terror attack on a… https://t.co/VYx33OXdRb
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BREAKING: Australian police arrest 7 alleged teen extremists linked to stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church https://t.co/0THR07kFg0
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Australia: Teenager charged with terrorism in church attack A 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing two clerics during a church service in the eastern Australian city of Sydney has been charged with committing a terrorist offense https://t.co/iHxrKdN0Qa
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A 16-year-old Australian boy has been charged with ‘terrorism’, police said, over the stabbing of an Assyrian church bishop in western Sydney https://t.co/62um0hbKFX https://t.co/uzqN6qdedr
Police charged a 16-year-old boy with a terrorism offence for the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a church on Monday https://t.co/QnF7oWX0T8 https://t.co/LpODlX5ozH
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