KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police have foiled plans for a wave of bombings drawn up by radical Islamic militants inspired by Iraq’s extremist jihad group Islamic State, a top counter-terrorism official said on Tuesday.

The 19 suspected militants arrested from April to June were formulating plans to bomb pubs, discos and a Malaysian brewery of Danish beer producer Carls–berg, said Ayob Khan Mydin, deputy chief of the Malaysian police counter-terrorism division.

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