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# Two arrested in Germany over mall attack plot: police

> German authorities have arrested two brothers on suspicion of planning an attack on a shopping centre in the western city of Oberhausen, police said Friday.

By AFP · Published 23 December 2016, 07:18 SAST

## Content

The two men were aged 28 and 31 and originally from Kosovo, police said, with the country on edge after a jihadist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin killing 12 people.

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