KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police said Tuesday they had foiled a “terror plot†to disrupt last month’s Southeast Asian Games and the country’s independence day celebrations and arrested 19 suspects including 11 foreigners. The new national police chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun said the arrests were made during a series of raids across the country in July and August. As well as eight Malaysians there were one Bangladeshi, two from the Maldives, three from Iraq, a Palestinian, two Indonesians and two Filipinos, he said in a statement. “Between July 4-Aug 30, the (police) Special Branch counter terrorism division has launched operation in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Kelantan and Johor to thwart terror plot to disrupt the 2017 SEA Games and the 60th National Day celebration,†Fuzi said.
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