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Tunisia arrested about 100 suspected Islamist militants in the last three days, some of whom were preparing attacks, officials said Tuesday, and published video footage showing evidence of an ISIS influence on some of those detained, Reuters reported.

Tunisia is waging a campaign against hard-line Islamist groups who emerged in the country during its transition to democracy after the 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

News of the arrests comes a week after four Tunisian policemen were killed by militants in the central region of Kasserine, close to Algeria.

“In the past three days we foiled terrorist operations and arrested about 100 jihadielements,” said Mohammad Ali Aroui, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

Aroui said security forces had uncovered a militant cell in the city of Hammam Ghzaz preparing explosives to attack security buildings.

A video published by the Interior Ministry on Facebook showed the cell owned instructions for making explosives and a picture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.