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Police are now screening their particulars with Interpol database on wanted terrorists.
PETALING JAYA: Some 350 foreigners were rounded up in a special operation by the federal Special Branch counter-terrorism division focusing on shops in Nilai 3, Negeri Sembilan.
Some of the suspects are believed to be linked to the Islamic State of Khorasan province (ISKP) organisation, whose members have been in hiding in this country, reported NST Online today.
It said the ISKP is a branch of the Islamic State (IS) and operates in the border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In the three-hour operation, a total of 742 shops were checked by various enforcement agencies.
The division’s principal assistant director Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said the operation was a follow-up to that undertaken at Masjid India here on Aug 6.
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