At least 62 people have died in attacks in India's restive northeastern state of Assam.

According to police, separatist Bodo militants from the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) carried out the attacks in villages mainly inhabited by non-Bodos in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts on Tuesday.

The Islamic State (IS) has captured a Jordanian pilot from a plane that crashed in Syria, claiming the jet was shot down with a heat-seeking missile.

The United States disputed the claim stating that “evidence clearly indicates that ISIL did not down the aircraft” and that the plane had crashed in Syria on Wednesday. A statement from US Central Command said it would “not tolerate ISIL's attempts to misrepresent or exploit this unfortunate aircraft crash for their own purposes”.

Jordanian Information Minister Mohammad Momani, however, told al-Arabiya TV that a “missile fired from the ground” had hit the plane, adding that “efforts to rescue the pilot were unsuccessful.”

Images of the pilot of the F-16 aircraft have been released on social media, alongside photographs of IS militants hauling wreckage of the aircraft.

The French government has decided to deploy up to 300 soldiers and increase police patrols in public areas, Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced, after three seemingly unrelated attacks left around 20 people injured.

Mr Valls told Europe 1 radio there was "no link" between the attackers and that the police were dealing with individuals who acted alone.

“The number of patrols will be increased during this period. Between 200 and 300 soldiers will be deployed in the coming hours,” Valls said.

“Patrols by police and gendarmes will concentrate on areas where there are a lot of people: shopping areas, city and town centres, stations and transport networks.”

“Israel's safety comes first. I won't allow even one rocket, and that is why the IAF responded to the rocket and destroyed a cement factory that was making cement to repair tunnels that were hit during Operation Protective Edge. Hamas will be held responsible for every escalation.”

“In under 48 hours, peshmerga forces have succeeded in retaking 700 square kilometres of Isis-held territory... This corridor . . . has enabled the peshmerga to gain direct access to the displaced people trapped on Mt Sinjar, to provide humanitarian support and evacuation where necessary.”