Porbandar / Ahmedabad, 10 June (Hindustan Times). The Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) in a major operation in Porbandar arrested 4 accused, including a | BLiTZ
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The Gujarat ATS team mounted a close watch at the railway station at Porbandar and detained three of the four accused on Friday morning. Upon interrogation, it was revealed the accused were on set to reach the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan via Iran".
ATS Gujarat busted the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) module by arresting three youth of Srinagar from Porbandar and one woman from Surat. All the arrested persons were planning to escape the country by sea and go to Afghanistan for training.
The Islamic State terrorists were preparing to flee outside of India to join the ISKP and had been in communication with each other for the previous year.