Authorities are investigating the stabbings of nine people inside a Minnesota mall Saturday night as a potential act of terrorism after an ISIL-linked news agency claimed that the armed attacker was “a soldier of the Islamic State.”The attack occurred around 8 p.m. inside the Crossroads Mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, about 70 miles northwest of Minneapolis. “His heroic actions are exemplary.”Falconer, who was off-duty and happened to be at the mall Saturday night, is also a former chief of police in Albany, Minnesota. “It’s insane.”All of a sudden I heard pop pop popAnother witness, Harley Exsted, said he and his wife were in St. “All of a sudden I heard pop pop pop,” Harley told the paper.

Source: National Post September 18, 2016 22:18 UTC