Seven arrested in anti-terror raids after church attack

In major anti-terror raids in Australia, seven people have been arrested. The suspects have connections to a teenager who last week stabbed an Assyrian bishop.

The police describe it as the seven arrested posing “a risk and a threat” of an unacceptable kind.

Previously, the teenager arrested for the stabbing was said to be a follower of a “religiously motivated extremist ideology”. The boy is said to have shouted Muslim slogans during the act, and is expected to be tried for terrorist offences.

The bishop has appealed for calm after the incident. It has shaken Australia’s largest city, Sydney, especially as it came just days after a man stabbed six people to death in a shopping mall. That case is not classified as terrorism, but an act of sheer insanity.