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Canadian police arrest 10 youths trying to join IS
Ottawa, May 20
Police in Canada have arrested
10 young men who, they suspect, want to leave the country to join the
Islamic State (IS) terrorist group overseas.
The arrests were
made over the weekend at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International
Airport, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement on
Tuesday, reports CNN.
Police have seized the passports of all 10
Montreal residents youths and investigators have spoken to their
families and friends.
No one has yet been charged and the investigation was going on, the statement said.
The identities of the 10 young people arrested have not been disclosed.
Canada's
Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney condemned recent threats made by
IS against Canada and other Western nations in a statement on Friday.
"Once
again, IS has shown its horrific and barbarous nature by calling for
attacks on Canadian soil. IS and the international jihadist movement
have declared war on Canada and our allies -- simply because of the way
we live and the freedoms we enjoy," he said.
"We will not be intimated by these jihadi terrorists and we will not sit on the sidelines."