REVEALED: How ISIS suspects arrested in Malaysia were on the brink of attack on West
THE alleged militants, who have been arrested, tried to get bomb-making ingredients and raise funds to build a terrorist network, police say.
The Malaysian police have detained the 15 members of Islamic State
The Malaysian police have detained 15 more suspected members of Islamic State, who they claim were planning to launch attacks and tried to get materials to make bombs.
National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said in a statement that the suspects were aged between 22 and 49 and included four women, a police official, an aeroplane technician, a mosque cleric and a student.
National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar
The suspects were arrested over three days and had allegedly received orders to launch attacks in the country from a Malaysian man who had joined ISIS in Syria.
The arrests follow bombings by Islamic militants in Brussels, which killed 31 people and injured 270 more.
The arrests come days after innocent people were killed in the Brussels attacks
Mr Abu Baker said that the group also arranged for two foreign terror suspects to smuggle out of Malaysia, into a south-east Asian country.
The four women were intending to go to Syria to join ISIS.
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One hundred and seventy-seven suspected militants have been detained in Malaysia in the past three years.
Malaysia is on a particularly high terror alert since the capital of neighbouring Jakarta was attacked by militants in January.