Suspected Islamic extremist 'had bomb material'

French counterterrorism police found a bomb-making manual at the home of a man detained in a sweep of suspected Islamic militants who allegedly plotted attacks in Paris, a newspaper report said today.

Four people were detained yesterday south of Paris, including two suspected of links to convicted Islamic militant Safe Bourada, who was picked up in another wave of arrests made last week, officials had said. The two are French converts to Islam aged in their 20s.