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IS Claims Responsibility For Paris Attack

  The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly knife attack carried out in central Paris late Saturday, according to the SITE monitoring … Continue reading IS Claims Responsibility For Paris Attack


A French policewoman stands in Saint Augustin street in Paris centre after one person was killed and several injured by a man armed with a knife, who was shot dead by police in Paris on May 12, 2018. The attack took place near the city’s main opera house. Police indicated that the attacker had been “overcome” and his motives are unknown. The man attacked five people with a knife, one of whom died, police said. Two were in serious condition and all the victims are in hospital. Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
A French policewoman stands in Saint Augustin street in Paris centre after one person was killed and several injured by a man armed with a knife, who was shot dead by police in Paris on May 12, 2018. 
Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP

 

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly knife attack carried out in central Paris late Saturday, according to the SITE monitoring group.

“The executor of the stabbing operation in the city of Paris is a soldier of the Islamic State and the operation was carried out in response to the calls to target the coalition states,” a “security source” told IS’s official Amaq news agency in an Arabic-language report.

The knifeman, shouting Allahu akbar, was shot dead by police after he killed one person and injured four, prompting a terror probe.

The attack took place near the city’s main opera house in an area full of bars, restaurants and theaters which were brimming on a weekend night.

The man attacked five people with a knife, one of whom died, police said. Two were in serious condition and all the victims are in hospital.

The attack comes as France is under a constant threat from terrorism. A string of jihadist attacks have claimed the lives of over 245 people around France in the past three years.