Taylor Swift concerts cancelled as suspect admits to planning suicide attack targeting fans

Swift had been scheduled to play at Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Taylor Swift concerts cancelled as suspect admits to planning suicide attack targeting fans

Taylor Swift's Vienna concerts have been cancelled. Picture: Charles McQuillan/TAS24/Getty Images 

Three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna this week have been cancelled after police foiled a terror attack plot with a focus on the singer's Austrian Eras Tour dates.

A 19-year-old Austrian citizen had confessed to planning a suicide attack targeting fans outside the stadium, Austria’s interior minister, Gerhard Karner, told reporters on Thursday.

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