Islamic State claims responsibility for knife attack in France's Marseille, says monitoring group

Washington: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a knife attack that killed two women at the main train station in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille. [caption id=“attachment_4101193” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  One of the bodies lying in Marseille. AP[/caption] The monitoring group SITE quoted an Arabic language report on the group’s Amaq propaganda agency that cited a “security source” as saying: “The executor of the stabbing operation in the city of Marseille… is from the soldiers of the Islamic State.” The attacker, a man believed to be in his 30s, was shot dead by soldiers serving in a special 7,000-strong force known as Sentinelle set up to guard vulnerable areas in terror-hit France. The latest deaths came with France still on high alert and under a state of emergency following a string of attacks in recent years by extremists linked to the Islamic State group or Al-Qaeda.