AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Two militants on a motorbike blew themselves up outside the US embassy in Tunis on Friday, Tunisian authorites said, in the country's most serious attack in months.
Tunisia's Interior Ministry said the two militants were killed carrying out the attack, and five police officers were injured.
Radio Mosaique, a local radio station, said the assailants approached the police patrol as if to seek information before setting off an explosive device.
Sirens could be heard on the major highway linking the Berges du Lac district, where the embassy is located, with central Tunis and suburbs in the north. The US embassy in a tweet urged people to avoid the area.
FRANCE 24’s correspondent Fadil Aliriza reported a heavy security presence at the scene and what appeared to be body parts on the ground.
Last summer, the ISIS terrorist group said it was behind three militant blasts in the capital, including one near the French embassy that killed a policeman and another that wounded five people during a security operation to detain a suspect.
Tunisia's critical tourism sector is highly vulnerable to militant incidents and was devastated after two major attacks in 2015, which killed scores of visitors at a beach resort and a popular museum.
Diplomats who have worked with Tunisia on its security capacity say it has grown more effective in preventing and responding to militant attacks in recent years.
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source : France24
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6 March 2020
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Two militants on a motorbike blew themselves up outside the US embassy in Tunis on Friday, Tunisian authorites said, in the country's most serious attack in months.