MADRID, Feb 3: Spanish police arrested 13 people on Tuesday on suspicion of links to organised crime and terrorism groups.

A police statement said the detainees — 11 Pakistanis, a Nigerian and an Indian — were suspected of belonging to an international crime gang involved in passport forgery, drug trafficking and people-smuggling.

Police said they were investigating whether the group might also have supplied forged documents to international terror groups. Spanish police often use that term to refer to extremist organisations of Muslims, but a police official refused to say if that applied this time.—AP