MADRID, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Spanish National Police and their Moroccan counterparts have broken up a jihadist cell and arrested five suspected terrorists in Morocco and one in Spain, the Spanish Interior Ministry said here on Wednesday.
The leader of the group, a 39-year-old Spanish national, was one of the five arrested in Morocco, while he was carrying "recruitment and educational" work for the Islamic State.
The other five members are all Moroccan, although one of them was a resident in Melilla, Spain, where he was arrested.
The Spanish Interior Ministry said the six had made up a cell reaching a "dangerous level of activity," while the Moroccan Security chief said they were planning "large scale" terrorist attacks and that they held "nighttime meetings where they carried out training sessions and simulated assassinations through decapitations."
Spain highlighted the cooperation with Morocco in the operation which has led to the "neutralization of a dangerous threat for both countries."
The Spanish security forces have detained, or led to the detention of 244 terrorists in Spain and abroad since the start of 2015.
