Sixteen-year-old arrested on Tuesday in south-west Western Australia over Instagram comment
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A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in Western Australia after an alleged threat, which alluded to a terrorist massacre, was made online against a recently opened Sydney mosque.
The comment on the place of worship’s Instagram page threatened to “Christchurch 2.0” the mosque at Edmondson Park in the city’s west, an apparent reference to the New Zealand city where an Australian man killed 51 worshippers in 2019.
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