Police say two teenage girls in the US state of Texas have been arrested for plotting a “casualty attack” with pipe bombs and guns.
Girls aged 15 and 16 were planning an attack at Memorial High School in a suburb in Houston, police told KHOU, a BBC American partner CBS News colleague.
CBS reported that this plot – which was shared on social media – was quite wide that the authorities considered it reliable.
The Federal Investigation Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said the threat to the mitigation team was in response to help the local police immediately arrest the teenagers.
The Montgomari County Sheriff Office said in a statement, “We are considering the matter with great readiness and commitment, as the dangers of violence in our schools will not be tolerated.”
A letter sent to the Memorial High School families said that the police arrested a student on a “potentially reliable danger in the planning stages identified on social media”.
The school said that it was implementing additional security measures after the incident.
Sheriff’s office said that one of the students, one of the teenagers, was being held on unrelated charges at the Willis High School in Conro, Texas, while a student in a nearby spring branch school district, detained in a nearby county Was in The police have not named two girls, as they are not adults.
According to ABC News, students were arrested for informing the school about the danger within 30 minutes of the FBI.
