KUALA LUMPUR -- Ten suspected Islamic militants, seven of them Filipinos allegedly trying to establish a Malaysian cell for a kidnap-for-ransom group in the Philippines, were arrested in Borneo island, police said on Wednesday.

The alleged extremists are also accused of trying to help fighters linked to the Islamic State (IS) travel to the Philippines to join up with militants there, police said.

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