KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's police chief said on Saturday that a suspected militant arrested in a metro station in Kuala Lumpur had confessed to planning a suicide atttack in the country. The 28-year-old male was arrested on Friday with weapons and documents related to the Islamic State group, police said.
In a statement, Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said the suspect confessed to planning a suicide attack in Malaysia after receiving orders from a foreign IS member in Syria. No other details were immediately available. Prior to that he had tweeted that the man was arrested on Friday at a station in Jelatik, close to the centre of the city.
He said three other people suspected of being supporters of Islamic State were also arrested between Jan. 11 and Jan. 15. The three were arrested at Kuala Lumpur international airport after they returned from Turkey, where they were detained for trying to make their way into Syria.
Malaysia has been on high alert since bomb and gun attacks in neighbouring Indonesia's capital city on Thursday.
Security has been beefed up security in public areas and the country is taking extra measures to secure border areas fearing inflitration of terrorists.
Indonesian police killed one suspected militant and arrested two more in raids across the country on Friday, a day after an attack by Islamic State suicide bombers and gunmen in Jakarta
that killed seven people.
Reuters
