Austrian police arrest 8 over alleged IS links

 

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Austrian police arrested eight suspected terrorists on Thursday in a series of early-morning raids in the country’s two largest cities that mobilized heavily armed SWAT teams and hundreds of officers supporting them. A statement from the public prosecutor’s office in Graz, one of the cities involved, said those detained were suspected of involvement with the IS extremist group. Police also struck simultaneously in Vienna, in twin operations that the statement said utilized 800 police.

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