Danish police have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked uproar two years ago.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, "to prevent a terror-related murder", the police intelligence agency said.
The suspects were allegedly planning to kill Kurt Westergaard, a cartoonist at Jyllands-Posten,the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons, said the paper's editor-in-chief. The cartoons were later reprinted by a range of Western publications.
Mr Westergaard and his 66-year-old wife had been living under police protection because of the murder plans, Jyllands-Postenreported. It said those arrested included both Danish and foreign citizens.