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/>
News On AIR | January 14, 2017 7:44 AM
Spain, Hungary arrest five with alleged IS links