Nine al Qaeda terrorists have been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) after multiple raids in Kerala’s Ernakulam and West Bengal’s Murshidabad, officials aware of the development said on Saturday.
All the nine terrorists were arrested on Friday night and are linked to a terror plot, according to the officials cited above. Six of them are from West Bengal and three belong to Kerala They were planning single wolf attacks and human bombs, officials said.
The three arrested in Kerala are also Bengalis but settled among migrant labourers The raids by NIA are on in Ernakulam and Murshidabad. More arrests are likely, said people who are part of the investigation.
More details awaited
