ISIS has claimed responsibility for a knife attack in a town outside Paris today, in which a man stabbed his mother and sister to death and seriously injured a third person.
The 36-year-old was heard shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ during the attack in Trappes, known as a hotbed of jihadism. More than 50 people from the town 20 miles west of Paris have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for ISIS.
The man, identified as a taxi driver named Kamal S., was shot dead by police. He had been on a terror watch-list since 2016.
Shortly after the attack, ISIS’s Aamaq propaganda agency tweeted that the man had heeded their calls to target ‘nationals of coalition countries.’
The attack took place just hours after ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was heard urging the terror group’s ‘holy warriors’ to continue fighting their enemies across the world, in a freshly released audio recording.
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The motivation of the attacker is unclear at this time.