Police in Kenya said Tuesday they broke up a terror cell linked to the Islamic State after uncovering plans for “large-scale attacks” including a plot to unleash Anthrax on that country.
Anti-terror officers arrested Mohammed Abdi Ali, a medical intern at the Wote District Hospital in Makueni County, along with his wife, Nuseiba Mohammed Haji, a medical student in Uganda.
The suspects had aimed to launch attacks on the scale of the 2013 Westgate Mall siege in Nairobi, Reuters reports. That assault, on a busy shopping day, killed more than 60 people.
Separately, the group was in touch with medical experts who helped plot a biological attack using anthrax, investigators add.
“Ali has been engaged in the active radicalisation, recruitment of university students and other Kenyan youth into terrorism networks,” police said.