Seven arrested in Spain over suspected jihad links

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AFP Madrid
Last Updated : Feb 07 2016 | 6:57 PM IST
Spanish police said they arrested seven people today with suspected links to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State jihadist groups.
The arrests were carried out in the eastern cities of Valencia and Alicante and in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, the police said in a statement.
"Four of those arrested are Spanish nationals of Syrian, Jordanian and Moroccan origin," it said.
A Syrian and a Moroccan were also taken into custody, it said. A police spokesman later announced a seventh arrest, but did not give the individual's nationality or other details.
The operation was still ongoing.
The arrests were made in the context of an investigation launched in 2014 into "foreign structures" of Islamic State - which is also called ISIL, ISIS or Daesh - and the Al-Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, police said.
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First Published: Feb 07 2016 | 6:57 PM IST

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