Paris--A gunman killed dozens of people at a Tunisian beach resort, a suicide bomber targeted a mosque in Kuwait and a decapitated head was displayed on the fence of a gas factory in France in an Islamist assault Friday.
The attacks were not apparently coordinated, but came after the Islamic State group urged supporters to carry out attacks during Ramadan.
Thirty-nine people, including foreign tourists who had been sunbathing and swimming, were shot dead at the packed Tunisian Mediterranean resort of Port el Kantaoui after a man pulled out a gun hidden inside a beach umbrella.
IS claimed the suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in a rare attack on Kuwait in which 27 people were killed, and Islamist flags were found at the site of the French attack.
The Islamist bloodshed comes on the second Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in which Muslims observe a fast from dawn to sunset every day.
On Tuesday, Islamic State group spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani called for Muslims to engage in jihad and become martyrs during Ramadan.
"The best acts that bring you closer to God are jihad, so hurry to it and make sure to carry out the invasion this holy month and be exposed to martyrdom in it," Adnani said in an audio message posted online.
"These are your weapons and this is Ramadan."
A day of bloodshed began with a dawn raid on an African Union base in Somalia by Al-Qaeda affiliated Shebab militants who often increase attacks during Ramadan.
Witnesses said as many as 50 people were killed in Lego village, 100 kilometres (62 miles) northwest of the capital Mogadishu, and some of them beheaded, before Shebab hoisted a black Islamic flag over the base.
AFP
