Tunisian Security Forces Kill Suspected Organizer of Museum Attack
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid announced on Sunday, March 29, a successful raid on militants from the Okba Ibn Nafaa brigade, an al-Qaida-linked militant group, in the southern region of Gafsa. This video, released by Tunisia’s Interior Ministry, is described as showing the raids in Gafsa on Sunday.
Essid reported the death of nine militants, including Lokman Abu Sakhr, an Algerian suspected of organizing the Bardo Museum attack that killed 21 tourists and a policeman on March 18.
On March 28, tens of thousands of people also marched in Tunis in a rally against terrorism attended by Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi and other world leaders, including French President Francois Hollande, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, according to Reuters. Crowds chanting “Le Monde est Bardo” (The World is Bardo) marched from the old city to the Bardo Museum. Credit: Facebook/Ministry of the Interior – Tunisia (Ministry of the Interior – Tunisia)
