(VOVworld) – Authorities in Kosovo have turned off water supply in Pristina following the arrest of five suspects linked to the Islamic State over an alleged plot to poison a reservoir.

Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, a city of about 200,000 people. (Photo: Arild Vågen/Wikimedia Commons)

Pristina’s water authority said the water treatment facility at Badovc Lake, which supplied 40 percent of the capital with drinking water, was cut early on Saturday due to “security issues” to allow checks for possible contamination. Kosovo’s police officers detained three men behaving suspiciously near the Lake. Later on Saturday, two more people were arrested in Kosovo. All five people were accused of taking plots of terrorism. A police source said two of the suspects had been arrested last year on suspicion of traveling to Syria.