Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, were found dead near the village of Imlil in Morocco's High Atlas mountains on Monday.
A video showing the murder of one of the women has been recognised as genuine, Danish intelligence service said today adding that the killings can be connected to ISIS.
Men in the gruesome clip can be heard shouting 'it's Allah's will' while there are claims that the words 'this is for Syria' were used, in an apparent reference to Western bombing missions in the war-torn country.
Separate footage has emerged today showing four men suspected of carrying out the attack pledging their alliance to ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...Sitting in front of a black and white flag, one is seen brandishing a knife as they condemn 'destruction caused by the warplanes of the Crusader alliance'. They also appear to taunt Morocco's intelligence service, saying 'where is your knowledge? For here we are...'
This morning, a series of fearsome knives were found on a bus in Marrakesh as three suspects were tossed in the calaboose
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
over the atrocity. Yesterday, a fourth man was held, suspected of belonging to an Islamic bully boy group.
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Threatening with other operations, one of the killers said in the video: "Take care of your necks, we have planned what will not even cross your mind."
Moroccan prosecution confirmed later on Thursday that the killers pledged allegiance to ISIS.
Moroccan authorities locked away
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three people on Thursday, bringing to four the number of suspects in the killing of two foreign tourists in the mountain village of Imlil in the province of El Haouz in the outskirts of the city of Marrakech, southern Morocco.
The counterterrorism office revealed that the arrest took place Thursday morning in the city of Marrakech in coordination with the police.
Previously Moroccan authorities said Wednesday, that the lone suspect arrested in the killing of two Scandinavian tourists in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains is connected to a terrorist group
Local media reported that the suspects had links to the ISIS group.