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Morocco arrests four suspected of having links to Islamic State - interior ministry

RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan police have arrested four people suspected of belonging to a militant cell linked to Islamic State, the interior ministry said on Monday.

The cell, the latest of a series of Islamist militant groups the authorities say they have uncovered, had been active in the central city of Beni Mellal, the ministry said in a statement.

(Reporting by Aziz El Yaakoubi; Editing by Patrick Markey and Richard Balmforth)

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