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Man arrested in Baragoi for 'spying' on parish

Police say the suspects were not church members and neither had they been spotted in the area before Sunday. [Courtesy]

A man has been arrested in Baragoi on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack at a local church, police have said.

The 22-year-old man was in the company of an accomplice who managed to escape a police dragnet at the Baragoi Catholic Church during Sunday morning Mass.

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