Nineteen people died and forty-four were injured Wednesday, March 18 in the attack of the Bardo Museum in Tunis . The Elysee confirmed in the evening killed two French, adding that seven other nationals were among the injured, one was “in serious condition” . An operation of the Tunisian security forces is underway to search for possible accomplices of the two attackers killed in the assault of the police.
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The attack, which lasted nearly four hours, began early in the afternoon, when two armed assailants Kalashnikovs opened fire on tourists who descended from their bus in the parking lot of the museum. The gunmen then chased the tourists inside the Bardo Museum, reported the Prime Minister of Tunisia.
Speaking to the press, Wafel Buzi, a guide who accompanied a group Spanish-speaking visitors to the museum, testified to have seen in the parking lot a “young man of 25, normally dressed, beardless” , holding a Kalashnikov. “He was handling, I thought he was playing with, and then he opened fire. “
” We realized that it was not firecrackers but terrorists shooting at everyone who walked in the square. After they entered the museum. They were almost ten meters, they shot everything that moved “ , Josep Lluis Cusidó explained, a Spanish tourist, the Cadena Ser. “I was lying on the ground almost three hours. “
The neighbor Parliament was evacuated from the late morning. The “panic” was “huge” when the shots rang out, reported the Sayida Ounissi MP Twitter. The shooting took place “in full hearing of the armed forces in the Terrorism Act” in the presence of “minister of justice, judges and army cadres” .
The intervention of the security forces near the museum ended around 15: 30 pm, according to a journalist from the World on site. This is the worst terrorist attack in Tunisia since the attack that killed 21 victims, mostly German tourists in front of a synagogue in Djerba in 2002. The attack was claimed by al-Qaida.
The Prime Minister Habib Essid reported deaths of nineteen seventeen foreign tourists and two Tunisians – a policeman and a bus driver. Two attackers were also killed. Forty-four people, including six Tunisians were injured, some seriously.
Francois Hollande in the evening confirmed the death of two French, and added seven nationals were injured, one was “in serious condition” .
Among the other tourists, four Italians, two Colombians, five Japanese, a Pole, an Australian and two Spaniards died, according to the Prime Minister Tunisia. Thursday, Japan challenged the figures of the Tunisian authorities on its citizens, evoking a “error” . Tokyo confirmed the death of three Japanese and three wounded. Italy and Spain, which did not contradict Tunisia respectively reported three and two victims.
Some tourists traveling with the cruise line Costa, one ship was calling at the port La Goulette, a suburb of Tunis. Costa Cruises said that fourteen passengers were not brought on board as a result of the attack and that his ship anchored in the harbor, the Costa Fascinosa , was about to leave on Wednesday evening, leaving a team on hand to help tourists.
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The attack has not been claimed. An operation of the security forces is underway to search for possible accomplices killed the two assailants.
Since the January 2011 revolution that ousted President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia emerged a jihadist movement responsible for the deaths of dozens of police and military.
Linked to Al-Qaida, the phalanx Okba Ibn Nafaâ is considered the main jihadist group in Tunisia, active in the border Algeria. Between two and three thousand Tunisians also would fight in the ranks of jihadist groups in Syria, Iraq and Libya. Five hundred returned home, police said, and are considered a major threat to security.
Tunisians fighting with the Islamic State (EI) have also threatened their homeland in recent months . According to EI, a Tunisian participated in the assault of a hotel in the Libyan capital that killed nine people in January. Another conducted a suicide attack in Benghazi, eastern Libya)
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The Anti-terrorism section of the Paris prosecutor’s office also opened an investigation into the attack, a standard procedure when French among the victims.
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