Swift terror suspect planned to kill ‘as many as possible'

One of the teenagers arrested over a foiled terror plot at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna admitted he planned to kill "as many people as possible", officials said.

- ATHENA STAVROU

The star was forced to cancel her upcoming shows after authorities in Austria detained two young men suspected of planning a major attack at one of her sold-out performances. However, London mayor Sadiq Khan says Britain’s capital will “carry on” with planned gigs at Wembley next week.

The main suspect, a 19-year-old boy, had uploaded an oath of allegiance to the current leader of Isis online and is alleged to have been plotting alongside a 17-year-old who had begun working at the stadium days before.

Austria’s general director for public security, Franz Ruf, told ORF that chemical substances and technical devices, showing “concrete preparatory actions”, were found at the 19-year-old’s house in the town of Ternitz.

Both teenagers had become radicalised on the internet and had specific plans to carry out an attack, officials said, and investigators are now determining if the substances found could have been used to make an explosive.