CAIRO, EGYPT: Islamic State was responsible for an attack outside Britain’s parliament which left four people dead, the group’s Amaq news agency said on Thursday.
“The perpetrator of the attacks yesterday in front of the British parliament in London is an IS soldier and he carried out the operation in response to calls to target citizens of the coalition,” the Amaq statement said.
IS, which has controlled parts of Iraq and Syria in recent years, has lost territory this year to local forces in those countries supported by a US-led military coalition.
The wording of the statement mentioned no direct involvement in the attack, which investigators have said was inspired by Islamist terrorism.
Isis frequently claims responsibility for terror attacks that it has not directly orchestrated or facilitated, but that are publicly linked to its ideology.
Metropolitan Police detectives are investigating the attack as terror-related but have not named any particular group.—Agencies
