A UK internet user helped police stop a teenager from unleashing a deadly attack on his school in Ukraine, the Metropolitan Police has said.

The anonymous referral was made to the Met's Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit on 4 September, according to the force.

It warned of an "imminent attack being planned by an individual in Ukraine " and was immediately passed to Europol to help alert local police.

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.

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.

It was accompanied by an image of the knife, phone, and rucksack seized b

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