Terror link probe in deadly Dundalk spree

Technical examinations are being conducted on two mobile phones and at an abandoned house in a bid to determine the motivation behind a knife rampage by an Egyptian teenager in Dundalk that left a young Japanese man dead and two Irish men injured.

Terror link probe in deadly Dundalk spree

Detectives, including specialist anti-terrorism officers, are trying to establish if there might be a jihadist motivation for the attack — which would be the first of its kind in the country.

Gardaí yesterday confirmed that a terror attack was a “line of inquiry”.

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