ADL: US deaths from terror, extremism at highest level since 1970

Deaths due to terrorism and extremist tick up slightly in 2016, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

At least 69 people were killed in the US last year, a modest jump from 65 in 2015, the Jewish anti-hate group says Thursday.

The figure “establishes 2016 as the second deadliest year for domestic extremist related deaths in the US since 1970, the earliest year for which ADL maintains such data,” the group notes.

The report is titled “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2016.”

It notes that most of the deaths, 49, were of people “killed in the June 2016 shooting spree at the Pulse nightclub by terrorist Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to [Islamic State] and referred to the Boston Marathon bombers during the attack. That attack alone was the deadliest domestic terrorist incident since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and overshadowed all other extremist acts.”