Dutch security forces say they have arrested twelve Somali nationals in the port of Rotterdam on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack in the Netherlands, PressTV reported.
The arrests took place on Friday night as the police acted on a tip from the Dutch intelligence and security service, the AIVD, said a public prosecutor, quoted by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle on Saturday.
"The [AIVD] message reports that a number of Somalis wanted to make a terrorist attack in the Netherlands soon," the prosecutor added.
Ages of the detained suspects range between 19 and 48. Six of them reportedly lived in Rotterdam. Five others had no fixed address and one of the individuals had traveled to the Netherlands from Denmark.
A telephone shop and four houses were searched in Rotterdam, along with two motel rooms in the southern town of Gilze-Rijen. However, no weapons or explosives were found in the search.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew the country's former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to one million people have lost their lives in Somalia due to fighting between rival factions, as well as famine and disease.
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