Osmonaly Guronov of the Interior Ministry said several clerics had been arrested in recent months for possessing explosives and firearms
The statement comes a day after the country's interior minister, Murat Sutalinov, said police would get additional defense technology and weapons to fight the banned Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
(AKIpress, Interfax)
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