(CNN) -- Police in Malaysia are holding 11 people on
suspicion of involvement in a militant group responsible for planning
acts of terror, police spokeswoman Asmawati Ahmad said Sunday.
There is no indication
that the group, arrested last week, has any connection to the missing
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, she said.
The detainees are also
suspected of having links to terrorists in other countries. Police plan
to detain other suspects as a preemptive measure, Asmawati said.
The arrests were made in
the city of Selangor, just outside the capital Kuala Lumpur, and in the
state of Kedah, which borders on Thailand.
The neighboring country
has closed and closely monitored the border with that region of Malaysia
in a crackdown on terrorism, according to the CIA World Factbook.
The violence in Thailand
stems from ethnic Malay Muslim separatists. This year, they began
targeting Thai Buddhist woman, killing them and mutilating their bodies,
Human Rights Watch has reported.
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