Yemen held on Wednesday ten people including 5 Pakistanis in Sana'a while spreading extremist religious thoughts, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

The arrestees were aged 27-65 years, and their arrest took place at a mosque in the Dhula'a Hamdan district while spreading the Jihad ideology among the people who gathered around them, the ministry said.

They were turned over to investigators on charges of practicing an unauthorized activity, it said.