Suspected Abu Sayyaf leader arrested in Kuala Lumpur

London [UK], Sep 4 (ANI): The Malaysian police on Sunday arrested a suspected leader and seven members of the Daesh-linked Abu Sayyaf militant group in Kuala Lumpur.

The Police detained Hajar Abdul Mubin, also known as Abu Asrie, in a Wednesday raid, a source told the Middle East Monitor.

Hajar, who hails from Philippines, was arrested along with one other Filipino and six Malaysians from the Borneo state of Sabah, which shares a porous maritime border with the Philippines.

The Malaysian police have arrested more than 250 people in last three years on the suspicion of their links with Daesh. These arrests came amid ongoing crackdown on militancy by Muslim majority Malaysia.

The insurgent group Abu Sayyaf is known for bombings, beheadings, extortion and kidnap-for-ransom in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic Philippines.

The Malaysian authorities have been worried as the Daesh constantly growing in the region as militants loyal to Daesh seized large parts of Marawi city in the southern Philippines in May. (ANI)

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