January 14, 2017 7:44 AM

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Spain, Hungary arrest five with alleged IS links

Five people with suspected links to Islamic State jihadists were arrested in separate incidents in Spain and Hungary, with several weapons also being seized.<br/><br/> Spain's interior ministry yesterday said police detained a Moroccan man with Dutch identity documents in the northwestern city of Figueras suspected of belonging to IS who recently returned to Spain from Turkey. <br/><br/>The authorities are investigating whether his return was motivated by a desire to carry out some sort of action in Europe.<br/><br/>In a separate operation, police detained two Spanish men who were part of a group that had reached a very high level of determination to carry out terrorist activities. The group was fully aligned with the strategy of the terrorist organisation Daesh, the ministry said in a separate statement.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Hungarian authorities said they arrested two young women from France and Belgium allegedly seeking to join IS in Syria. A police spokesperson told Hungarian news agency MTI that the Belgian, 18, and the French national, 19, were trying to cross into Serbia yesterday, <br/><br/>The women, who were not named, were travelling on a bus from Vienna to Sofia from where they planned to reach Syria and join IS. No further details were released.<br/><br/>Spanish police have arrested 181 people accused of connections to Islamist militant groups since 2015 when Spain raised its terror alert level to four on a scale of five following deadly attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait.<br/><br/>

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