Moroccan authorities said Tuesday (April 23rd) they have arrested six suspected extremists with links to the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS), AFP reported.
The suspects, aged between 22 and 28, were "supporters" of ISIS and suspected of planning "terrorist acts", the central bureau of investigations said in a statement.
They were arrested in the town of Sale near Rabat in a raid led by the bureau's anti-terrorism squad, during which electronic devices, bladed weapons and "extremist" manuscripts were found, it added.
Suspected extremist sympathisers are to go on trial in Sale next week for the murder of two Scandinavian women in Morocco's High Atlas mountains last December.
Morocco has been spared large-scale terror attacks since a 2011 bombing in Marrakesh's famed Jemaa el-Fnaa Square that killed 17 people, mainly European tourists.
But each year authorities announce the dismantling of dozens of ISIS cells.
