The bodies of Maren Ueland, left, and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen were discovered near the base of Mount ToubkalThree suspected jihadists have been arrested after the killing of two Scandinavian hikers in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains as a gruesome video of the beheading of one of the tourists was shared on social media. Morocco’s Central Office of Judicial Research said today that the three new suspects were arrested in Marrakesh, two days after the detention of another suspect, whom prosecutors said had affiliations to an unspecified extremist group. The mutilated bodies of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, were found this week in a remote region of the Atlas Mountains, six miles from the village of Imlil — often the starting point for treks to Mount Toubkal, North Africa’s highest peak. Three suspects, yet to be named by authorities, have been arrested after two Scandinavians were killed in the Atlas MountainsDenmark’s domestic security agency said the preliminary…

Source: The Times December 20, 2018 12:00 UTC