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Moroccan officials have announced they broke up a 10-person cell tied to ISIS.

Getting into it: The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), Morocco’s lead counterterrorism agency, said it arrested the suspects in coordinated raids across seven cities Monday morning: Agadir, Taroudant, Casablanca, El Hajeb, Tetouan, Fquih Ben Salah, and Safi. Police said the plot was “in an advanced stage of preparation.”

Authorities say the cell was linked to ISIS’s Sahel Province (ISSP), and that the suspects had sworn loyalty to the group and were taking their orders straight from its Africa branch. One of those detained was a minor, and investigators described another as the cell’s “emir,” the one doling out assignments to everyone else.

The raids turned up a stockpile of knives, combat-style gear, digital files, extremist paperwork, written guides for building explosives, and the chemicals needed to actually make them. In a warehouse in Inezgane, investigators came across a vehicle whose fuel tank had been rebuilt and rigged for either a suicide blast or a ramming attack on high-value targets. The search also turned up butane canisters and pressure cookers stuffed with nails and hooked into wiring.

Investigators say they’re still probing the cell’s suspected connection to the ISSP and chasing down whether the plot had help at home or abroad, with the search for any remaining members still on.