One injured person transported himself to a hospital and was not initially counted, St Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis told the news conference. Amaq, the news agency affiliated with the Islamic State group, issued a statement on Sunday saying, "The executor of the stabbing attacks in Minnesota yesterday was a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to calls to target the citizens of countries belonging to the crusader coalition." Somali community leaders in St Cloud, about 100 km northwest of Minneapolis-St. Paul, condemned the attack and expressed concern about a possible backlash. "The news of the St Cloud mall was shocking to the friends, relatives and community of the deceased ... We do not know the motive of that stabbing incident," said Mohamoud Mohamed of the St Cloud Area Somali Salvation Organisation. In St Cloud, the attacker entered the mall in the evening as it was busy with shoppers, Anderson said.

Source: dna September 19, 2016 04:51 UTC