Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews assured Australians of tighter security for the Anzac Day rites on Saturday. He said more cops would be deployed at some sites such as the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne.

He made the assurance after the arrest of five young Aussies who planned to create havoc on the important day. Andrews said his family would attend the events as an assurance to the Victorian community that its local police force is providing the best possible arrangement to keep Victorians and tourists safe.

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While the Anzac Day terror plot was inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the planned attack was limited to police officials. Information available indicated that the five Australian youths arrested for the plan excluded beheadings which the Islamic terrorist organization is known for.

Neil Gaughan, acting deputy commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, said that despite the absence of decapitation plans, evidence collected and available information still pointed to the attack being inspired by the ISIS.

Most of the suspects are teenagers, two who are 18 planned the attack on Anzac Day ceremony on April 25 in Melbourne, another one aged 18 was arrested on weapons charges and two more, who are 18 and 19, are in police custody and assisting officials. All five were apprehended in Melbourne, reports Associated Press.

Another link to the ISIS of the five, according to another deputy commissioner, Michael Phelan, is their connection to Numan Haider. He pointed out that Haider, also 18, stabbed two Melbourne cops and was shot dead later in September 2014. Prior to the incident, Phelan was seen waving what looked like an ISIS flag at a shopping mall.

Australia is on red alert for ISIS-inspired attacks by locals after Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, spokesman of ISIS, urged attacks overseas. He particularly pointed to Australia which has supported the coalition airstrikes against ISIS.

In January, one such attack happened in Sydney when a man of Middle Easter descent who got Australian citizenship held hostage café patrons and eventually killed some of his captives.

According to Phelan, police have been monitoring the five suspects for the past few months and arrested them when they planned a specific attack on Anzac Day which commemorates the 1915 Gallipoli landings that led to the first major military battle fought by Australian and New Zealand troops during World War I.

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