Published on 12:00 AM, May 27, 2015

Austria tries 14-year- old 'terror' suspect

A 14-year-old Austrian schoolboy with alleged ties to Islamist extremists and accused of intending to bomb a Vienna train station went on trial yesterday facing up to five years in prison. According to the charge sheet, the teenager, who emigrated from Turkey in 2007, wanted to carry out the attack before travelling to join "holy war" in Syria and was in contact with ISIS recruiters in Vienna.