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Friday 12 Jun 2015 - 18:34 Makkah mean time-25-8-1436
AFP/File
Rabat, (IINA) - Moroccan authorities on Thursday dismantled a seven-member "terrorist" cell linked to the ISIS group that was planning to abduct and murder tourists, news agencies reported citing the Moroccan Interior Ministry.
The suspects, whose identities were not revealed, had "pledged allegiance" to the extremist IS group, the ministry noted in a statement carried by the MAP news agency.
They were planning "terrorist operations" including attempts to "abduct and physically liquidate" tourists at seaside resorts, the statement added.
According to the interior ministry, the suspects had undertaken "intensive paramilitary training" in a mountainous region of Morocco.
The arrests were made by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, inaugurated in March as part of the Kingdom´s beefed-up war against extremism.
SM/IINA
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