( CNN ) -- Police in Malaysia are holding 11 people on suspicion of involvement in a militant group responsible for planning acts of terror , police spokeswoman Asmawati Ahmad said Sunday . There is no indication that the group , arrested last week , has any connection to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , she said . The detainees are also suspected of having links to terrorists in other countries . Police plan to detain other suspects as a preemptive measure , Asmawati said . The arrests were made in the city of Selangor , just outside the capital Kuala Lumpur , and in the state of Kedah , which borders on Thailand . The neighboring country has closed and closely monitored the border with that region of Malaysia in a crackdown on terrorism , according to the CIA World Factbook . The violence in Thailand stems from ethnic Malay Muslim separatists . This year , they began targeting Thai Buddhist woman , killing them and mutilating their bodies , Human Rights Watch has reported . CNN 's Mitra Mobasherat contributed to this report .
Police are holding 11 people on suspicion of terrorist affiliations . The suspect was shot by police after he opened fire at officers who were responding to the scene in a shopping center parking lot near the mall entrance. Some of the arrests were made in a state bordering Thailand . Southern Thailand is plagued by separatist violence from ethnic Malay Muslim militants .