Taylor Swift Vienna concerts canceled, chancellor says tragedy averted
Taylor Swift’s Eras tour concerts in Vienna have been canceled, after the government confirms a planned terror attack at the Ernst Happel Stadium. Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer says ‘a tragedy was prevented.’
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00:00Taylor Swift's Eres Tour concerts in Vienna have been cancelled after the government confirms
00:05a planned terror attack at the Ernst Havel Stadium.
00:09Austrian police detained two people, one of them a 19-year-old Austrian citizen whom police
00:13say had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
00:16Authorities say chemical substances and technical devices were found in his house, which they
00:20say show, quote, concrete preparatory actions.
00:24Vienna newspaper Courier, citing sources familiar with the situation, reports the suspect had
00:28stolen the chemicals from his former workplace and had made progress in building a bomb.
00:33The newspaper also reports the suspect had planned to drive a car into the crowd, gathered
00:37outside the stadium.
00:39Swift's three concerts in Vienna were expected to draw 195,000 people.
00:45Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer says a tragedy was prevented.
00:48Swift 34 has not yet commented on the cancellations.