German police arrest suspected terrorists on plane

Berlin: Police arrested two male terrorist suspects on an Amsterdam-bound flight at the Cologne airport in western Germany on Friday, police said.

The men were suspected of wanting to take part in Islamist attacks, a police spokesman told German television, adding that they also found farewell letters.

One of the men was a Somali and the other was a German born in Somalia, the spokesman said, adding they were hauled out of the plane just before take off.