Turkey's state-run news agency says that police teams have mounted simultaneous raids at multiple locations in Istanbul to detain several suspected members of the Daesh group.

The operations took place early on Wednesday in two Istanbul districts and were coordinated by a helicopter flying overhead, The Independent reported on Wednesday.

The operation comes days after a suspected Daesh bombing at a wedding in southeast Turkey killed at least 54 people. It also coincides with a Turkish military incursion into Syria to clear a border town of the Daesh group.

Several suspects were detained and their addresses searched. Authorities did not disclose the number of those detained.

Source: MENA