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Bio-Terror Alert: Three Charged Over Alleged ISIS-Linked Plan To Use Toxic Ricin in Mass Poisoning Attack

Professionals in yellow PPE suits attending to a procedure outdoors for safety training. (For illustration purposes only) (Credit: Center for Disease Control's Public Health Image Library / Pexels)

India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet against three men, including a Hyderabad-based doctor, over an alleged ISIS-linked bio-terror plot involving plans to carry out mass poisoning attacks using ricin, a highly toxic biological substance.

The chargesheet was filed before a special NIA court in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, after investigations into what authorities described as a conspiracy to spread terror through the use of prohibited weapons and bioterrorism.

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