SYDNEY (DPA) - Two men who plotted a 2016 Christmas Day terror attack in Melbourne, Australia's second-most populous city, will spend at least 28 years behind bars, a court ruled on Friday (Nov 29).

The Victorian Supreme Court ruled that Ahmed Mohamed, 27, and Abdullah Chaarani, 29, planned to behead people and set off bombs in Federation Square in Melbourne's city centre.

A third man, 24-year-old Hamza Abbas, who was linked to the plot, was jailed for 16 years.