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Kenyan police arrest university student over IS links

Xinhua, November 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Kenya's anti-terrorism police on Wednesday arrested a male university student in the coastal city of Mombasa over links with the Islamist State militant group.

Officers acting on intelligence report raided the student's residence in a Mombasa suburb and caught Hassan Kassim.

Mombasa police chief Peterson Maelo said detectives had intercepted communication devises belonging to Kassim and discovered his intention to travel to Libya and join the IS.

"We are still interrogating him with possibility of arresting more students we suspect could have been radicalized to join the terrorist group," Maelo told reporters.

Police in August arrested two medical interns, suspected of being part of the latest batch of university students radicalized and lured to join the IS in Libya, in the coastal town of Malindi.

Last year, four other medical interns at the same hospital in Malindi were arrested for allegedly planning to join IS.

Maelo said the police are working with universities to prevent students from being recruited by IS. Endit