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A policeman is killed in a terrorist attack in Tunisia when three Islamic militants are shot dead by forces who rammed the officers with their vehicle.
- The assailants rammed their vehicle into the security agents and attacked them with knives
- One officer was killed and another injured in the coastal city of Susa.
- Susa was the site of the deadliest extremist attack in Tunisia in 2015
Tunisian forces shot dead three suspected Islamic militants who rammed their vehicle into security officials and attacked them with knives, killing one and wounding another in the coastal town of Susa.
Susa was the site of the deadliest extremist attack in Tunisia in 2015, when a massacre killed 38 people, most of them British tourists.
A statement from the Interior Ministry said the attackers took refuge in a school after the attack and were killed in a shootout with security forces.
Police secure the site of an attack on Tunisian National Guard officers in Susa, southern Tunisia, on Sunday
Tunisian forensic police investigate the site of the terrorist attack against Tunisian National Guard officers in Sousse
Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi speaks to the media at the scene of an attack on Tunisian National Guard officers in Susa today. Tunisian forces shot dead three suspected Islamic militants who rammed their vehicle into security agents and attacked them with knives.
The prime minister of the North African nation, Hicham Mechichi, appeared to suggest that the attackers’ planning may have been flawed.
Speaking in Susa, at the scene of the attack, he announced the arrest of a fourth suspect who was on board the vehicle that rammed the National Guard officers.
“These terrorist groups wanted to signal their presence,” he said.
But this time they were in the wrong direction. The clearest proof of this is that the perpetrators of this attack were eliminated in a few minutes ”.
The Tunisian forensic police investigate the scene of an attack against agents of the Tunisian National Guard on 6 September, top and bottom
The prime minister of the North African nation, Hicham Mechichi, appeared to suggest that the attackers’ planning may have been flawed.
He added that “these microbes should fear the Tunisians because the lions are protecting the country.”
Hatem Zargouni, Susa security director, said the assailants stabbed the officers and then fled with their weapons.
The wounded officer was admitted to the hospital.
The previous attack in Sousse on June 26, 2015 dealt a severe blow to Tunisia’s tourism sector, a pillar of its economy.
Tunisian forensic police investigate the site of an attack on Tunisian National Guard officers on 6 September
The so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack.
Aymen Rezgui, a Tunisian student who trained with Libyan militants, walked to the beach at the Imperial Hotel and used an assault rifle to shoot tourists on lounge chairs.
He then continued to the hotel pool before throwing a grenade at the hotel and was later killed by the police.
