At least seven people have been wounded in a knife attack in the Russian Siberian city of Surgut, local criminal investigators say, and the attacker has been shot dead by police.
The militant Islamic State group, monitored in Cairo, said one of its fighters had carried out the attack on Saturday, though a Russian law enforcement spokeswoman would not comment on whether police regarded the incident as terrorism related.
"A man was moving along the main streets stabbing people", the local law enforcement committee in Surgut said in a statement on its website. No one was killed in the attack.
The attacker, who was born in 1994, had been killed, it said. It did not identify him by name.
"The committee is investigating attempted murder", its spokeswoman told Reuters by phone.
"The attacker responsible for the stabbing incident in Surgut in Russia is a fighter of the Islamic State," the group said through the AMAQ news agency.
