Police in Brazil have arrested a man they say had tried to detonate an explosive device to “sow chaos” ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 1 January.
According to the BBC, the man had planted the bomb in a fuel truck near the airport in Brasilia, but it failed to go off, police said.
The suspect told officers he had hatched the plan with other supporters of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro.
Police are trying to find his possible co-conspirators.
The 54-year-old suspect told investigators he had come to Brasilia on 12 November to take part in protests outside the army’s headquarters.
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