Police have arrested and charged two people for planning an attack on a passenger train on a railway between New York and Toronto.
Canadian police say they have foiled an al Qaeda-backed "terrorist plot" to attack a passenger train on a railway line between New York and Toronto.
Two people have been arrested and charged for conspiring to carry out the attack, police revealed at a news conference in Toronto this evening.
The suspects had been under surveillance since August 2012.
Canadian authorities, the FBI and US Homeland Security police and agents were involved in the year-long investigation that led to the arrests in Toronto and Montreal.
Assistant Commissioner James Maliza, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said: "Had this plot been carried out it would have resulted in innocent people being killed, or seriously injured."
"They are really hailing this as a successful operation - something particularly in the current climate that they have managed to prevent," said Sky's US correspondent Amanda Walker.
"It does seem they have treated this as a very serious and major threat which was certainly well on in the planning, it seems."
The news comes one week after twin bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded 180 - and as Canada's parliament debates a proposal to beef up anti-terror measures.
Canadian police say they have foiled an al Qaeda-backed "terrorist plot" to attack a passenger train on a railway line between New York and Toronto.
Two people have been arrested and charged for conspiring to carry out the attack, police revealed at a news conference in Toronto this evening.
The suspects had been under surveillance since August 2012.
Canadian authorities, the FBI and US Homeland Security police and agents were involved in the year-long investigation that led to the arrests in Toronto and Montreal.
Assistant Commissioner James Maliza, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said: "Had this plot been carried out it would have resulted in innocent people being killed, or seriously injured."
"They are really hailing this as a successful operation - something particularly in the current climate that they have managed to prevent," said Sky's US correspondent Amanda Walker.
"It does seem they have treated this as a very serious and major threat which was certainly well on in the planning, it seems."
The news comes one week after twin bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded 180 - and as Canada's parliament debates a proposal to beef up anti-terror measures.
Source : Skynews
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