ISIS boasts of killing or injuring 5,200 people worldwide during Ramadan – including Orlando massacre victims
The Pulse nightclub massacre, the slaughter of foreigners in a Bangladesh restaurant and Iraq car bombs are among the atrocities ISIS claimed
ISIS has boasted of murdering 5,200 people worldwide during the sacred Islamic month of Ramadan.
Car bombings, mass shootings and suicide bombings are among the massacres it claims to have carried out.
The group made the chilling claim in an infographic created for its Arabic-language newsletter al-Naba.
It counts the Orlando nightclub siege and a recent massacre at a restaurant in Bangladesh as its own.
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On June 12, 49 people were killed when a man claiming to be inspired by ISIS entered Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and opened fire.
He was killed a few hours later by police, having committed the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history by a single gunmen.
And two weeks ago, a group of ISIS gunmen stormed a restaurant in Dhaka where they stabbed to death any captives who could not recite verses from the Koran. Some 29 people were killed.
Another atrocity claimed by the group included the murder of a French policeman in northern France.
On June 13 Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his wife were both stabbed to death in their home by their neighbour.
One of ISIS's worst atrocities is counted in the total - a devastating car bomb in Baghdad that killed almost 300 people.
Hundreds of people were shopping in the busy marketplace when the car bomb in a refrigerator truck was detonated.
However, ISIS did not count the attack at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, which the country's Prime Minister blamed on the group.
Breaking down the total, ISIS claimed it had killed, among others: 2,000 Shiites; 1,000 Kurds; 580 Syrian Alawites; and 285 Christians.
