Two terrorist suspects arrested on plane in Germany

GERMANY: Police arrested two male terrorist suspects on a KLM aeroplane at Cologne airport in western Germany on Friday, police said.

The men were suspected of wanting to take part in Islamist attacks and farewell letters had been found, a police spokesman told German television.

One of the men was a Somali and the other was a German born in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the spokesman said, adding they were hauled out of the plane just before take off about 0455 GMT, he said.

No further details were immediately available and no one was immediately available at KLM to comment.

BERLIN, Friday, Reuters