The Islamic State (ISIS) has threatened to attack the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. Football fans and World Cup organisers were left worried after a threat purportedly issued by ISIS came up on Tuesday. 

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The message warned of terror strikes during the FIFA event scheduled for next summer. The message, a photoshopped image carrying the warning, was widely shared on pro-ISIS groups through encrypted messaging application Telegram, according to British newspapers. The message was an image showing the Russia 2018 logo hijacked by a gun-wielding ISIS fighter while a lighted bomb also features in the picture.

ISIS had claimed responsibility for carrying out a major bomb blast in one of Russia's largest cities St Petersburg just a few months ago. As many as 14 people were killed in the April 2017 attack. ISIS has said that it was in retaliation to Russian airstrikes in Syria earlier this year.