News: Terrorist attack on Tunisian museum - 17 foreigners killed

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Two Britons feared to be among 17 tourists killed in terrorist attack on Tunisian museum: Two attackers also dead after armed officers bring siege to an end

At least 17 foreigners have been killed in a terror attack in Tunisia
Unconfirmed local reports suggest two Britons were among those dead
Two gunmen opened fire in the capital's Bardo Museum about midday
Another 30 people were held hostage before police raided the building
Both attackers and a policeman were killed in the ensuing shootout

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Two Britons are feared to be among 17 tourists killed today after two gunmen 'hunted down' foreigners outside a popular Tunisian museum, before being killed themselves in a dramatic police raid.

Seventeen of those killed were foreigners, but local reports suggesting two were British are yet to be confirmed.

Tunisian prime minister Habib Essid has now warned two or three gunmen involved in the attack may still be at large.

He described how the vulnerable tourists were 'hunted down' as they exited cruise ship buses to visit the popular museum in the country's capital of Tunis, before two gunmen entered the museum to take dozens more hostage.

He said: 'The terrorist fired randomly as they got off the buses. As they fled, they were hunted and chased down.'

It is believed several hundred managed to flee the museum, while another 20 - 30 were taken captive before anti-terrorist security forces raided the building.

Polish, Italian, Spanish and German nationals have been confirmed as among the casualties, while the stated death of the two militants and a police officer would bring the death toll to 20.

It is unclear who the attackers were, but a video posted online in December attributed to Islamic State warned the jihadis would target the country.

Mohamed Ali Aroui, an Interior Ministry spokesman, described the two attackers as 'Islamists' in local broadcasts, CNN reported.

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The museum, built within a 15th-century palace, is the largest museum in Tunisia with collections covering two floors.

The museum is near the North African country's parliament, some four kilometres (two-and-a-half miles) from the city centre. A new wing with contemporary architecture was built as part of a 2009 renovation, doubling the surface area. Some 8,000 works are displayed in the museum, according to the website.

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Buyonce1814

Oh ffs!

May those killed rest in peace

Miichael

Can you please not use gifs in this thread, so ****ing disrespectul and unnessecary.

This is so sad. I was in Tunisia last year.

HausOfCarlos

liberalmusiclover

May the innocent victims RIP.

Pokistic

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HOW TUNISIA BECAME A BREEDING GROUND FOR ISIS MILITANTS

Tunisia has long been a hot-bed of would be jihadist sympathetic to the ISIS cause, with an estimated 3,000 people fighting in Syria – the highest number of any country.

The north African country has always been a breeding ground for terrorists, with extremists advantage of bored and jobless young men looking for an escape route.

But the recent surge in numbers seems to be down to the hard-line groups which have taken advantage of the relaxing laws following the Jasmine Revolution in 2011 - including Islamist militant group Ansar al Sharia, which the United States brands as a terrorist organisation and blames for a 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Tunis.

The government also released a number of fundamentalists from prison – allowing them to mix freely with the population once more.

These groups have taken advantage of the declining economy, capitalising on the disappointment felt by those who expected a change after the Arab Spring, according to Imen Triki, a lawyer who represents returning jihadists.

‘The Arab revolutions raised an expectation that wasn't met – people thought their lives would improve, but instead they got worse,” Mr Triki told The Telegraph.

‘In Syria, they are told they’ll get houses, they’ll get wives. These people are so alienated from our society that some choose this option in a heartbeat.’

Social media is also blamed, with pictures of ISIS fighters getting thousands of likes and recruiters using Facebook to find any potential fighters, much like is seen in the UK.

But with the rise of ISIS in Libya, to the east, and al-Qaeda affiliated groups in Algeria, to the west, it is now easy to join a ‘jihad’, and get arms into Tunisia itself.

‘Tunisia is surrounded by jihadist groups in the mountains who coordinate with the terrorists in Libya ... Libya is the main source of arms for jihadists in Tunisia,’ said Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa.

But despite this, Tunisia is seen as the success story of the Arab Spring, and tourist numbers have been on the increase once more as people begin to feel the area is safe once more.

In 2013, 6.27million people visited Tunisia. Of those, almost 330,000 were British, while 985,000 were French.

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Sakura Rose

Monceau

smh hurting so many families.

Rihinvention

ISIStrens...

toshibatoshiba

it's not safe anymore to travel outside of my country

Buyonce1814

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Originally posted by toshibatoshiba

it's not safe anymore to travel outside of my country

You're no safer inside your country than you are outside tbh. Don't let these terrorisistrens put you off going on holiday etc. That's only letting them win. I'm not sayign get your tanning lotion and go to Syria. But there's no reason for you to not to go to the majority of places in the world such as England, Norway, Germany etc.