Kenyan police has foiled a ‘large scale biological terrorist attack’ after arresting three members of an ISIS-linked terror group.
Three people, a married couple and a woman, allegedly planned ‘large-scale attacks’ including ‘a biological attack in Kenya using anthrax,’ Kenyan police said.
Married medical students Mohammed Abdi Ali and Nuseiba Mohammed Haji were arrested along with Fatuma Mohammed Hanshi, after police connected them to a terrorist network.
Ali, Haji and Hansi are allegedly part of ‘an East Africa terror group network, that has links to ISIS,’ according to Kenya police chief Joseph Boinnet.
Both Ali, the alleged leader of the group, and his wife Haji worked as ‘medical interns’ while studying medicine at university.
‘Ali has been engaged in the active radicalisation,recruitment of university students and other Kenyan youth intoterrorism networks,’ a police statement said.
The terror network linked to Ali ‘has been facilitating Kenyan youths to secretly leave Kenya to join terror groups in Libya and Syria,’ the statement added.
Ali, from Wote, southeast of the capital Nairobi, was arrested in Kenya and is being held in custody for 30 days while investigators gather further evidence.
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