WASHINGTON (Reuters) -FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday that officials had stopped a potential attack in Michigan, arresting multiple people, without providing further details.

“This morning, the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend,” Patel said in a post on X on Friday.

A Justice Department official said the plot had been expected to take place over Halloween weekend and was tied to international terrorism.

Police in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb, said on social media that the FBI had conducted an operation in that city on Friday, adding that there was “no threat.”

(Reporting by Jana Winter; editing by Scott Malone and Franklin Paul)

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