(WND)  Seven people from Pakistan, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia – where 15 of 19 9/11 hijackers came from – have been caught trespassing at a reservoir in the middle of the night from which Boston draws its drinking water.

The report posted on the local CBS affiliate noted that the five men and two women said they were chemical engineers and were interested in water supplies for “their education and career interests.”

It was only days earlier when WND reported that the FBI alleged a Muslim man who was arrested in a recent terror plot in New York reportedly was planning to kill as many as 100,000 people by contaminating the air or water supply in a major U.S. city.

In that case, Ahmed Abassi, 26, was studying chemical engineering at Laval University in Quebec City, reported Canada’s CBC News.

Abassi’s plan did not materialize beyond discussions, but he also was also being linked to Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two Canadian residents arrested in the alleged plot to derail a Via passenger train.

CBC News said American investigators have accused Abassi of fraudulently applying for a visa to stay in the U.S. to “facilitate an act of international terrorism.”

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement that Abassi “had an evil purpose for seeking to remain in the United States – to commit acts of terror and develop a network of terrorists here, and to use this country as a base to support the efforts of terrorists internationally.”

Abassi traveled to the U.S. in March, according to Canadian authorities, but did not enter the country directly from Canada. Authorities say it’s unclear how he entered the U.S.

He left Canada for Tunisia before Dec. 25, 2012, but never returned to Canada, CBC News reported, citing the RCMP.

In the more recent case, authorities in Belchertown told CBS that the seven were trespassing at Quabbin Reservoir, described as one of the country’s biggest man-made public water supplies.

It supplies Boston residents with drinking water, which also comes from the Wachusett Reservoir.

Massachusetts state police told the station “there was no evidence that the seven were committing any crime beyond the trespassing.”

Authorities said the FBI was investigating and the inspections of the water supply have been increased. The suspects, who reported addresses from various cities including Amherst and New York, were being summonsed for trespassing.

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