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Double suicide blasts wound nine in Tunisia capital
TUNIS, June 27, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Two suicide bombers attacked police and
the national guard in the Tunisian capital on Thursday, wounding at least
nine people including several civilians, the interior ministry said.
One attack on the main street of Tunis wounded three civilians and two
police personnel, the interior ministry said.
Body parts were strewn in the road around a police car on Habib Bourguiba
avenue near the old city, according to an AFP correspondent.
“It was a suicide attack, which took place at 10:50” (0950 GMT), on Habib
Bourguiba, Interior Ministry spokesman Sofiene Zaag told AFP.
The suicide bomber did not kill anyone “but five (are) wounded — three
civilians and two police officers”, Zaag added.
The second attack targeted a base of the national guard in the capital and
wounded four security personnel, the ministry said.
“At 11:00 am (1000 GMT) an individual blew himself up outside the back
door” of the base, wounding four security personnel, Zaag said.
Civil protection units and police rapidly deployed to Habib Bourguiba
avenue, where the interior ministry is located.
People initially fled in panic, before some crowded around the scene of
the attack, expressing anger against the authorities. Shops and offices were
closed by police.
On October 29 last year an unemployed graduate blew herself up near police
cars on the same street, killing herself and wounding 26 people, mostly
police officers, according to the interior ministry.
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