article_snippet.sent: A 14-year-old boy from Blackburn, Lancashire was arrested after Lancashire allegedly communicated with Australian men over a plan to use knives and swords to hack officers to death in Melbourne on Anzac Day, which takes place this Saturday.
article_snippet.sent: Police have arrested a 14-year-old on suspicion of helping to plot a terror attack in Australia (file photo)
article_snippet.sent: Greater Manchester Police said today that the 14-year-old was first arrested on April 2 after police intercepted communications between him and an Australian man, allegedly relating to a planned terrorist attack.
article_snippet.sent: As soon as this information came to light Tony Mole, from the North-West Counter-Terrorism Unit acted quickly with the relevant authorities here and abroad and this has resulted with officers from the NWCTU arresting a teenager. '
article_snippet.sent: Australian Federal Police said: 'Australian Federal Police and the Australian Federal Police can confirm a link between the arrest of a 14-year-old boy in Blackburn, Lancashire in the United Kingdom on Saturday with Operation Rising, a joint Counter Terrorism Team operation. '
highlights_snippet.sent: British teenager arrested on suspicion of helping to plot a terror attack on Anzac Day commemorations .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The 14-year-old allegedly communicated with an Australian man over plot .
  