Police has arrested four persons including a 16-year-old girl near Montpellier in France today, for manufacturing explosives for a possible suicide attack.
The girl was arrested alongside her 20-year-old boyfriend and two other men aged 26 and 33, reports the Independent.
It was reported that they were suspected of planning a suicide bombing in an unspecified tourist area of Paris.
The police found explosives and other equipment in a home shared by the girl and her boyfriend.
Triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a powerful explosive was found by the police inside a makeshift factory manufacturing the substance.
TATP was used in the Paris and Brussels attacks.
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