Twin suicide bomb attacks rock the Tunisian capital

Two suicide blasts rocked the Tunisian capital on Thursday, according to the country’s interior ministry, with several people wounded.

The first blast was caused by a suicide bomber targeting a police patrol on Tunis’ central Charles de Gaulle street, not far from the French embassy.

Two police officers and three civilians were injured, according to the interior ministry. Body parts were strewn in the road around the police car, an AFP news agency correspondent said.

The loud explosion was heard throughout the surrounding neighbourhood.

A second attacker blew himself up shortly afterwards near a police station elsewhere in the capital, the interior ministry said. Four people were injured in the attack.

The incidents, for which there was no immediate claim of responsibility, came four years after scores of people were killed in a spate of attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) group.

Two of the attacks targeted tourists – one at a museum in Tunis and another on a beach in Sousse – while a third targeted presidential guards in the capital.

In February, a Tunisian court sentenced seven people to life in prison over the museum and beach incidents.

Source: Stripes