The NIA has been in Kerala for a week looking for five people alleged to have direct links to the Al Qaeda unit in Pakistan. It has managed to arrest three of them and is searching for the remaining two.
Murshid Hassan, Yakoob Bishwas and Morshraf Hussien, all three residents of Ernakulam, were among the nine people arrested by the NIA on Saturday after it busted an inter-state terror model of al Qaeda. The six others were arrested in Murshidabad in West Bengal.
According to the NIA, all the three arrested from Ernakulam are foreign nationals who had infiltrated into India through the Bengal border. The three men were involved in raising funds for the south Indian module of al Qaeda founded by Osama bin Laden.
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