Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna cancelled due to terror threat
It came hours after Austrian law enforcement announced that two individuals had been taken into custody on suspicion they were planning attacks, including on Swift's shows.
VIENNA - Taylor Swift's three performances in Vienna have been cancelled, organisers said late Wednesday, after two suspects were arrested for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks, the German press agency (dpa) reported.
The decision to scrap the shows set for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week was announced by Barracuda Music in a message on Instagram.
It came hours after Austrian law enforcement announced that two individuals had been taken into custody on suspicion they were planning attacks, including on Swift's shows.
Franz Ruf, director general for public security at the Austrian Interior Ministry, said chemical substances were seized from a 19-year-old Austrian.
The police, concerned about possible explosives, had pre-emptively evacuated houses and part of a nursing home.
According to police, he was arrested Wednesday morning in the town of Ternitz, 75 kilometres south-west of Vienna.
A second person was arrested in the afternoon in Vienna. The police provided no further details. - BERNAMA-DPA
