Brunei arrests 20 KL cultists

Brunei arrests 20 KL cultists

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Reuters): Brunei said it has arrested 20 people, including foreigners, believed to be members of a shadowy Muslim cult which staged a daring arms heist in neighboring Malaysia early this month.

The detainees were being held under internal security laws for their suspected involvement with the Malaysian-based Al-Ma'unah cult, the Internal Security Department said in a statement issued on Thursday but seen on Friday.

The statement did not say when the 20 were arrested or how many of those detained were Brunei citizens and how many were foreigners.

But it said those arrested were not directly involved in the July 2 armory raid in Malaysia. Islam is the official religion in both oil-rich Brunei and secular Malaysia which share borders on the Borneo island.