The Islamic State group on Saturday hailed the perpetrators of a mass
shooting in the US state of California as "soldiers" of its caliphate,
without explicitly claiming the deadly attack.
In its English-language radio broadcast, the group praised the Wednesday shooting that killed 14 people and wounded 21 others.
"Two
soldiers of the Khilafah [caliphate] executed an attack on the Inland
Regional Centre in San Bernardino, California," the IS radio broadcast
said in English.
IS refers to the swathe of territory it controls in Syria and Iraq as an Islamic caliphate.
The English-language broadcast said the attackers, Syed Farook, 28, and his 29-year-old Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, were "killed in the path of Allah".
But the group stopped short of issuing an
official claim of responsibility for the shooting in the format it has used in the past for attacks in Paris and elsewhere.
The FBI said late on Friday it was probing the attack as "an act of terrorism" after reports that Malik had pledged allegiance to IS on Facebook.
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