23 suspects arrested over Tunis museum attack

Published March 26th, 2015 - 10:08 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Tunisia has said that 23 people have been arrested in connection with a massacre last week in the country's national musuem in the capital Tunis, according to AFP.

"Twenty-three suspects including a woman have been arrested as part of a terrorist cell" involved in the attack, Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli told journalists, adding that "80 percent of this cell" had been broken up.

The attack was claimed by Daesh (ISIS). Gunmen stormed Tunisia's Bardo museum last Wednesday, killing 23 people, including foreign tourists and a policeman. 

 

 

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