US student held over school 'bomb plot'

6 January 2013 Last updated at 03:05 ET Help

A 17-year-old student has been arrested on suspicion of plotting to bomb his classmates at Russell County High School in Alabama.

Police detained Derek Shrout after a teacher read his diary.

Katrina Gill reports.

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