A 16-year-old boy has been charged with multiple terrorism offences after allegedly accessing “guides” on how to commit a “mass casualty event”, a court has heard. The boy appeared before a children’s court in Sydney on Wednesday, where a commonwealth prosecutor said the teenager had accessed the materials “for the purpose of a contemplated mass casualty attack”. The guides – which Guardian Australia has chosen not to name – provide instructions on how to kill and commit mass causality events with different weapons, including with knives, the court heard. He was on Tuesday charged with five terrorism offences, one being
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