A UK internet user helped police stop a teenager from unleashing a deadly attack on his school in Ukraine, the Metropolitan Police has said.<\/p>\n
The anonymous referral was made to the Met’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit on 4 September, according to the force.<\/p>\n
It warned of an “imminent attack being planned by an individual in Ukraine<\/a>” and was immediately passed to Europol to help alert local police.<\/p>\n A day later, a 15-year-old boy was arrested at a school in Zakarpattia, western Ukraine, the country’s ministry for internal affairs confirmed in a post on X.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The boy was a student at the school and was arrested with a knife in his backpack while he was livestreaming the incident online, the post revealed.<\/p>\n It was accompanied by an image of the knife, phone, and rucksack seized by police at the scene.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News Commander Dominic Murphy, of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, described the intel and subsequent response as a “truly remarkable piece of work”.<\/p>\n “The swift actions by our officers alerting Ukrainian counterparts have helped to avert what could have been a potentially devastating attack at a school in Ukraine,” he said.<\/p>\n “It’s all the more remarkable when you consider the incredible difficulties those in Ukraine are facing while fighting a war, but thanks to our collective efforts, lives have almost certainly been saved.”<\/p>\n He urged people in the UK to report anything suspicious they see online to the Met’s internet unit so they can work with international partners to thwart other potential incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UK internet user helped police stop a teenager from unleashing a deadly attack on his school in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-125691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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