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Three men, dressed in military-style clothing, stormed the Bardo
national museum in Tunis at around midday local time, where they may
have taken hostages, Radio Mosaique reports.
And seven foreign tourists and one Tunisian were killed in the
shooting, an interior ministry spokesman said. Poland’s foreign ministry
said that three Poles were among at least six people wounded.
Commentators have speculated the attack may be linked to the death of a Tunisian Isis contingent leader (Picture: Reuters)
Tunisian armed forces surrounded the museum, which is next to the national Parliament, this afternoon.
Reports have suggested that the gunmen took tourists hostage before a planning attack on the parliament building.
The attack came just days after Tunisian Isis militant Ahmed
Al-Rouissi was killed in clashes with Libyan troops. Commentators
suggested there may be a link between Al-Rouissi’s murder and today’s
attack.
The Bardo museum has one of the world’s largest collections of Roman mosaics and is one of the country’s biggest attractions.
Credit: Metro.co.uk
