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The Moroccan security services have arrested seven people with suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) group, the Moroccan Interior Ministry announced in a statement on Thursday.
The suspects, aged between 22 and 32, were operating in the cities of Marrakech, Zaouiat Cheikh and Oulad Teima, the statement noted.
According to the preliminary investigations, the arrested were propagating IS extremist ideology and were recruiting young people to join IS group with the aim to conduct terrorist attacks in the kingdom at the instigation of an IS leader, the ministry pointed out.
The arrested are linked to another IS cell busted last October in the northern city of Fez, the same source added.
During the police raids, electronic devices, knives and IS documents were seized, it said.
Since 2015, Morocco has busted over 50 terrorist cells, more than 40 of which were linked to the IS, according to inInterior Ministry’s statistics.
