Suspected militants nabbed while they were making bombs


A group of suspected Islamic State militants planning to unleash chaos in the Klang Valley with improvised bombs was foiled when police arrested 12 people in Gunung Nuang.

KUALA LUMPUR: They tested bombs at the foothills of a mountain and were planning to test a bigger bomb deep in the jungle before unleashing their terror in the Klang Valley.

The IS-inspired militants never got to create the chaos they had wanted to.

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