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Officials in Kosovo shut off the water supply in the capital Pristina after fears that Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) had poisoned a local reservoir.

Tens of thousands of residents in Kosovo were without water early on July 11 “because of security issues” and officials said that five men were arrested in connection to the suspected plot, Reuters reported.

Kosovan jihadists of ISIL recorded a propaganda video claiming they would target the country’s water supplies in imminent attacks.

“If you can, take poison and put it in their meal or in their drink. Make them die, make them die of poisoning, kill them wherever you are…you can do it,” one terrorist says in the video.

Kosovo police reported three men behaving suspiciously near the water at the Badovc reservoir, which supplies around 100,000 of Pristina’s residents.

The reservoir supplies nearly half of Pristina, a city of more than 200,000 people.

Two other suspects were later arrested. All five face terrorism charges.

A police source was quoted as saying two of the suspects were detained last year on suspicion of traveling to Syria.

Officials say more than 200 people from Kosovo have traveled to fight in Syria and Iraq, where large swaths of territory are controlled by ISIL.

In August 2014, Kosovan authorities arrested more than 40 people suspected of planning to travel to Syria to fight for ISIL.

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