By RFIPubliée the 27-06-2019Modified the 27-06-2019 at 13:21
Two suicide attacks hit the city of Tunis on 27 June. The main avenue of the capital, Avenue Bourguiba, near the old town, was the scene of a suicide bombing. The suicide bomber was targeting the police. Body pieces littered the roadway around a police car at the site of the attack. An initial assessment of the Ministry of the Interior reports 5 wounded. In addition, four others were injured in a second attack on a National Guard barracks.
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Two suicide attacks targeted the city of Tunis on Thursday (June 27th). A kamikaze first targeted the police on the main avenue of the Tunisian capital, Avenue Bourguiba, injuring five people, namely 3 civilians and two policemen. A second attack targeted a barracks of the National Guard, in the Al Karjani district, still in the Tunisian capital, four wounded, according to the Interior Ministry.
Civil protection and police quickly deployed reinforcements on Bourguiba Avenue, where the Ministry of the Interior is located. Many businesses and administrations closed after the attack and the police cordoned off the area, calling on passers-by to leave.
At the scene of the attack, the body remains a priori kamikaze strew the ground at the top of the avenue. The French Embassy, located just a few tens of meters from the explosion, has just called all its nationals not to go to Tunis center. In late October 2018 on the same avenue, a suicide bomber, the only victim of the attack, blew himself up near a police vehicle.
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