MALE: Police in Maldives have captured 14 individuals purportedly working with unfamiliar Islamic radicals to do a besieging in the minuscule archipelago state, police said.
The suspects had been working with the Islamic State bunch and obviously arranging an assault with the plan of killing many individuals, Uswath Ahmed, the country's counterterrorism head, told correspondents Monday night. He didn't intricate.
He said the suspects were captured last Friday in three areas in the nation and 13 homes were struck.
Maldives is known for its immaculate sea shores and costly island resorts, yet there has been an ascent in strict fanaticism lately. The Sunni Muslim country of 500,000 individuals had the largest number of individuals per capita battling in unfamiliar conflicts.
The country's previous president and current Parliament speaker Mohamed Nasheed was fundamentally harmed in a bicycle bomb assault close to his home a year ago. Nasheed is known to be a liberal, favorable to West government official.