Queensland teenager, 13, charged over alleged plot to attack school

A teenager who police allege was planning an attack on a school has been charged after allegedly threatening people with a knife in Queensland.

The 13-year-old boy was arrested at a business on Saltwater Creek Road in Maryborough, about three hours north of Brisbane, about 9am last Thursday.

Police allege the boy was armed with a “large” knife, was wearing “certain items of clothing to disguise his appearance”, and threatened people inside the business.

Queensland Police Acting Detective Superintendent Jason Hindmarsh said the alleged threats were imminent and involved a local school, “particularly young people at that school”.

“We’ve got evidence to satisfy our evidentiary standards that he had planned to undertake acts of violence at a school,” Hindmarsh said.

Police said the boy was not previously known to them.

Read more: 7News (Australia)