Tunisia: A policeman and three militants have died after a ‘terrorist’ attack

Tunisian security officials say a police officer has been killed and another wounded in a knife attack at a coastal resort in Susa.

Three of the attackers were shot dead after the incident, which is being called a terrorist attack.

The latest incident comes two days after the new government was sworn in.

At the junction near the city port, suspected terrorists rammed their vehicle into a National Guard checkpoint.

According to the AFP news agency, a spokesman for the National Guard, Hossem Addin Jebabli, said two National Guard officers on patrol in the middle of Sousa were attacked with a knife.

“One died as a martyr and another was injured and was hospitalized,” he said.

“This was a terrorist attack.”

The assailants stole guns and a police vehicle during the attack before the attack, Mr Jebabali said. Security forces flew after them in the tourist areas of Al Qantawi.

“Three militants were killed in the firefight,” he said, adding that two guns and a car had been found.

The BBC’s Rana Jawad in Treason says it is unclear whether the attackers were linked to any terrorist group, but the widespread threat in Tunisia in recent years has come from sleeper cells made up of jihadists returning from Syria, Libya and Iraq. Tunis.

Th Th people lost their lives when a gunman opened fire on tourists living in El Cantawi in June 2015. Among those killed were British nationals staying at the British tourist Hotel Rui Imperial Marhaba.

The Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attack by Tunisian student Cefedidin Rezgui.

Since then the situation in Tunisia has improved a lot, although there is a state of emergency.

Since 2015, successive governments have changed their counter-terrorism strategies by focusing more on prevention rather than reacting, our correspondent said.

Countries such as Germany and the UK have contributed to the training of security forces.

This week, Tunisia’s parliament approved a new government formed by Prime Minister-elect Hitchem Mechichi.

Mr. Mechichi appoints technocrats to his government instead of members of political parties as has been the case in the past.