Tunisia Museum Terror Attack

DiMMuBoRGiR · #1 ● 03-18-2015, 10:07 AM

Gunmen armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles attacked the Tunisian capital’s famed Bardo Museum and the parliament compound on Wednesday, killing eight tourists and taking others hostage, the interior ministry said.

“A terrorist attack (has hit) the Bardo Museum,” ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told Mosaique FM radio. “There are eight victims” including “seven foreigners,” Aroui later told reporters.
He said security forces were surrounding at least two militants in the museum in central Tunis, a venue that is often packed with foreigners, the interior ministry spokesman added.

Italians were injured are part of a group of tourists on a cruise. At the time of the attack, it was learned at the Foreign Ministry, in the place of the shooting were in circulation three tourist buses.

UPDATE:
At least 21 people, including 17 foreign tourists, have been killed during a security operation at a museum in Tunisia's capital after a deadly hostage siege.
It 'the first victim of Novara Italian ascertained the terrorist attack of Tunis.
Francesco Caldara, 64 years old, retired, was cruising on the Costa Fascinosa with his partner Sonia Reddi, injured, to celebrate the birthday of her. I went ashore to visit the museum of Bardo, were hit while they were on board a bus. The news of the death of Caldara, originally given to wounded, family man, contacted by the Ministry of 'Inside.
There is also a Turin, Conti Orazio, among the victims of the attack Italian Tunis. And 'what is learned from sources close to the municipal administration for the city, which at the moment has not yet given official confirmation. The man died at the Museum of Bardo is the husband of Carolina Bottari, wounded and in hospital.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/0...114520583.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...ment/24948295/

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