Tunisian forces have shot dead three suspected Islamic militants who rammed their vehicle into security officers and attacked them with knives, killing one and injuring another in the coastal resort town of Sousse. Sousse was the site of Tunisia's deadliest extremist attack in 2015, when a massacre killed 38 people, most of them British tourists. An Interior Ministry statement said the assailants took refuge in a school after the attack and died in a shootout with security forces. Policemen secure the site of an attack on Tunisian National Guard officers in Sousse, south of Tunis, on SundayTunisian forensic police investigates the site of the terrorist attack on Tunisian National Guard officers in SousseTunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi speaks to media at the site of an attack on Tunisian National Guard officers in Sousse todazy. Tunisian forensic police investigate the site of an attack on Tunisian National Guard officers on September 6So-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack.

Source: Daily Mail September 06, 2020 14:14 UTC